Parallel Verses
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 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.
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 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 therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against you, O Tyre! I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves. 4 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. 5 She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord. She will become plunder for the nations,
Cross References
Isaiah 23:11
The Lord stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook kingdoms; he gave the order to destroy Canaan's fortresses.
Amos 1:10
So I will set fire to Tyre's city wall; fire will consume her fortresses."
Ezekiel 26:9
He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.
Leviticus 14:41-45
Then he is to have the house scraped all around on the inside, and the plaster which is scraped off must be dumped outside the city into an unclean place.
Jeremiah 5:10
The Lord commanded the enemy, "March through the vineyards of Israel and Judah and ruin them. But do not destroy them completely. Strip off their branches for these people do not belong to the Lord.
Ezekiel 24:7-8
For her blood was in it; she poured it on an exposed rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.
Ezekiel 26:12
They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw into the water.
Zechariah 9:3
Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!