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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
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.
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.
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 For this cause the Lord has said, See, I am against you, O Tyre, and will send up a number of nations against you as the sea sends up its waves. 4 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 5 She will be a place for the stretching out of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have said it, says the Lord: and her goods will be given over to the nations.
Cross References
Isaiah 23:11
His hand is stretched out over the sea, the kingdoms are shaking: the Lord has given orders about Canaan, to make waste its strong places.
Amos 1:10
And I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, burning up its great houses.
Ezekiel 26:9
He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.
Leviticus 14:41-45
And he will have the house rubbed all over inside, and the paste which is rubbed off will be put out into an unclean place outside the town:
Jeremiah 5:10
Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.
Ezekiel 24:7-8
For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;
Ezekiel 26:12
They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.
Zechariah 9:3
And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.