Ezekiel 26:12
They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
13I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:10At the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Isaiah 23:11He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. The Lord has ordered the destruction of Canaan's strongholds.
Isaiah 32:12Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,for the fruitful vine.
Ezekiel 26:5She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it," says the Lord God; "and she shall become a spoil to the nations.
Ezekiel 28:8They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.
Hosea 13:15Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come,the breath of the Lord coming up from the wilderness;and his spring will become dry,and his fountain will be dried up.He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 26:2-15
The Burden of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. 4 And… Read the whole commentary →