Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
These shall break the walls of Tyre, and cast down her towers. I will scrape the ground from her, and make her a bare stone.
New American Standard Bible
They will
King James Version
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.
Holman 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.
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,
A Conservative 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.
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.
Amplified
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.
Bible in Basic English
And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock
Darby Translation
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. And I will scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
Julia Smith Translation
And they destroyed the walls of Tyre, and pulled down her towers and I swept away her dust from her,i and I gave her for a dry rock
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And I will destroy the walls of Tyre, and they will demolish its towers, and I will scrape away its earthen dirt from it, and I will make it into {a bare rock}.
Modern King James verseion
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 a shining 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 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.
The Emphasized Bible
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre. And break down her towers, And I will scrape clean her dust from off her, - And make of her the glaring face of a cliff:
Webster
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 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.
Youngs 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.
Themes
the Sea » Illustrative » (waves of,) of devastating armies
Interlinear
Shachath
Harac
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 26:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ezekiel Prophesies Against Tyre
3 Yea therefore sayeth the LORD God: Behold O Tyre, I will upon thee, I will bring a great multitude of people against thee, like as when the sea ariseth with his waves: 4 These shall break the walls of Tyre, and cast down her towers. I will scrape the ground from her, and make her a bare stone. 5 Yea, as the drying place, where the fishers hang up their nets by the seaside. Even I have spoken it, sayeth the LORD God. The Gentiles shall spoil her:
Cross References
Isaiah 23:11
He that smote the kingdoms together holdeth out his hand over the sea: even the LORD himself hat given a commandment against that mighty Canaan, to root it out.
Amos 1:10
Therefore will I send a fire into the walls of Tyre, that shall consume her palaces.'
Ezekiel 26:9
His slings and battle-rams shall he prepare for thy walls, and with his weapons break down thy towers.
Leviticus 14:41-45
and scrape the house within round about, and pour out the dust without the city in a foul place.
Jeremiah 5:10
"Climb up upon their walls, beat them down, but destroy them not utterly: cut off their branches because they are not the LORD's.
Ezekiel 24:7-8
for the blood is yet in it. Upon a plain dry stone hath she poured it, and not upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust.
Ezekiel 26:12
They shall waste away thy riches, and spoil thy merchandise. Thy walls shall they break down, and destroy thy houses of pleasure. Thy stones, thy timber and foundations shall they cast in the water.
Zechariah 9:3
Tyre shall make herself strong, and heap up silver as the sand, and gold as the clay of the streets.