They will pound in your walls with battering rams and tear down your towers with iron bars.

The LORD has stretched out his hand over the sea and overthrown kingdoms. He has commanded that the Phoenician centers of commerce be destroyed.

I will send enemies to cut down my people's vineyards, but not to destroy them completely. I will tell them to strip away the branches, because those branches are not mine.

So I will send fire upon the city walls of Tyre and burn down its fortresses."

Tyre has built fortifications for herself and has piled up so much silver and gold that it is as common as dirt!

Your enemies will help themselves to your wealth and merchandise. They will pull down your walls and shatter your luxurious houses. They will take the stones and wood and all the rubble, and dump them into the sea.

After that he must have all the interior walls scraped and the plaster dumped in an unclean place outside the city.

If the mildew breaks out again in the house after the stones have been removed and the house has been scraped and plastered,

It must be torn down, and its stones, its wood, and all its plaster must be carried out of the city to an unclean place.

There was murder in the city, but the blood was not spilled on the ground where the dust could hide it; it was spilled on a bare rock.

I have left the blood there, where it cannot be hidden, where it demands angry revenge."