Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁחת 
Shachath 
Usage: 146

the walls
חומה 
Chowmah 
Usage: 133

of Tyrus
צור צר 
Tsor 
Usage: 42

מגדּלה מגדּל 
Migdal 
Usage: 50

I will also scrape
סחה 
Cachah 
Usage: 1

עפר 
`aphar 
Usage: 110

from her, and make
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

her like the top
צחיח 
Ts@chiyach 
Usage: 5

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Smith

Context Readings

Ezekiel Prophesies Against Tyre

3 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up. 4 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. 5 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.


Cross References

Isaiah 23:11

He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof.

Amos 1:10

but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

Ezekiel 26:9

And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

Leviticus 14:41-45

and he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scrape off, without the city into an unclean place:

Jeremiah 5:10

Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Jehovah's.

Ezekiel 24:7-8

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust.

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 waters.

Zechariah 9:3

And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

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