Ezekiel 26:4
New International Version
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock.

New Living Translation
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and tear down its towers. I will scrape away its soil and make it a bare rock!

English Standard Version
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.

Berean Standard Bible
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.

King James Bible
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

New King James Version
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

New American Standard Bible
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and tear down her towers; and I will sweep her debris away from her and make her a bare rock.

NASB 1995
‘They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her debris from her and make her a bare rock.

NASB 1977
‘And they will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her debris from her and make her a bare rock.

Legacy Standard Bible
They will make the walls of Tyre a ruin and pull down her towers; and I will scrape her dust from her and make her a bare rock.

Amplified Bible
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her dust and debris from her and make her as bare as [the top of] a rock.

Christian Standard Bible
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and turn her into a bare rock.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and turn her into a bare rock.

American Standard Version
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and they shall destroy her towers, and they shall dig up her soil from her and I shall make her like a smooth stone

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they shall cast down the walls of Sor, and shall cast down thy towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock.

Contemporary English Version
They will tear down your city walls and defense towers. I will sweep away the ruins until all that's left of you is a bare rock,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy the towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like a smooth rock.

English Revised Version
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and tear down its towers. Then I will sweep up the dust and turn Tyre into a bare rock.

Good News Translation
They will destroy your city walls and tear down your towers. Then I will sweep away all the dust and leave only a bare rock.

International Standard Version
and will destroy the city walls of Tyre. After they break down her fortified towers, I'll scrape away the city's debris, right down to the bare bedrock,

JPS Tanakh 1917
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, And break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, And make her a bare rock.

Literal Standard Version
And they have destroyed the walls of Tyre, | And they have broken down her towers, | And I have scraped her dust from her, | And made her for a clear place of a rock.

Majority Standard Bible
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.

New American Bible
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and tear down its towers; I will scrape off its debris and leave it a bare rock.

NET Bible
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.

New Revised Standard Version
They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down its towers. I will scrape its soil from it and make it a bare rock.

New Heart English Bible
They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

World English Bible
They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

Young's Literal Translation
And they have destroyed the walls of Tyre, And they have broken down her towers, And I have scraped her dust from her, And made her for a clear place of a rock.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
A Prophecy Against Tyre
3therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves. 4They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock. 5She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,…

Cross References
Leviticus 14:41
And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.

Isaiah 23:11
The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.

Ezekiel 26:9
He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.

Amos 1:10
So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels."


Treasury of Scripture

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

destroy

Ezekiel 26:9
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

Isaiah 23:11
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

Jeremiah 5:10
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.

I

Ezekiel 26:12
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.

Leviticus 14:41-45
And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: …

make

Ezekiel 24:7,8
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; …

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Ezekiel 26
1. Tyrus, for insulting Jerusalem, is threatened with destruction
7. The power of Nebuchadnezzar against her
15. The mourning and astonishment of the sea at her fall














(4) Her dust.--Comp. Ezekiel 26:12. The dust is that of her ruined walls and palaces and temples. "Scraping" expresses their utter destruction. As an historic fact, the ruins of the ancient city have all been thrown into the sea, and what now remains is of mediaeval construction, although the greater part of even the mediaeval ruins have been carried away.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They will destroy
וְשִׁחֲת֞וּ (wə·ši·ḥă·ṯū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin

the walls
חֹמ֣וֹת (ḥō·mō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 2346: A wall of protection

of Tyre
צֹ֗ר (ṣōr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 6865: Tyre -- a Phoenician city

and demolish
וְהָֽרְסוּ֙ (wə·hā·rə·sū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2040: To pull down, in pieces, break, & destroy

her towers.
מִגְדָּלֶ֔יהָ (miḡ·dā·le·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 4026: A tower, a rostrum, a, bed of flowers

I will scrape
וְסִֽחֵיתִ֥י (wə·si·ḥê·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5500: To sweep away

the soil
עֲפָרָ֖הּ (‘ă·p̄ā·rāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud

from her
מִמֶּ֑נָּה (mim·men·nāh)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

and make
וְנָתַתִּ֥י (wə·nā·ṯat·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

her
אוֹתָ֖הּ (’ō·w·ṯāh)
Direct object marker | third person feminine singular
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

a bare
לִצְחִ֥יחַ (liṣ·ḥî·aḥ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6706: Glaring, exposed to the bright sun

rock.
סָֽלַע׃ (sā·la‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5553: A craggy rock


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