They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.
So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour her strongholds.”
He has stretched out his hand over the sea; he has shaken the kingdoms; the Lord has given command concerning Canaan to destroy its strongholds.
He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets.
They will plunder your riches and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters.
For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust. To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered.
“Go up through her vine rows and destroy, but make not a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.
And he shall have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city. Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house. “If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it, then the priest shall go and look. And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent leprous disease in the house; it is unclean. And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city to an unclean place.
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