Ezekiel 26:12

They will plunder your wealth and pillage your merchandise. They will demolish your walls, tear down your beautiful homes, and throw your stones and timber and soil into the water.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — The prophet delivers a divine judgment against Tyre immediately after describing invading forces trampling its streets and slaughtering its inhabitants.

The words — שָלְל֣וּ (sha.Lu) = they will plunder and חֶמְדָּתֵ֖ךְ (chem.da.Te/kh) = your desire.

The thread — The destruction of commercial wealth and stone structures parallels Isaiah 23:8 against Tyre’s merchants and Amos 5:11 regarding the ruin of stone houses.

Why it lands — The passage demands the recognition that economic power and architectural beauty offer no protection against judgment, requiring readers to anchor their security outside material wealth.

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The Hebrew words

וְשָׁלְל֣וּve./sha.Luand/ they will plunder חֵילֵ֗ךְchei.Le/khwealth/ your וּבָֽזְזוּ֙u./va.ze.Zuand/ they will take as spoil רְכֻלָּתֵ֔ךְre.khu.la.Te/khmerchandise/ your וְהָֽרְסוּ֙ve./ha.re.Suand/ they will tear down חוֹמוֹתַ֔יִךְcho.mo.Ta.yi/khwalls/ your וּבָתֵּ֥יu./va.Teiand/ [the] houses of חֶמְדָּתֵ֖ךְchem.da.Te/khdesire/ your יִתֹּ֑צוּyi.To.tzuthey will pull down וַאֲבָנַ֤יִךְva./'a.va.Na.yi/khand/ stones/ your וְעֵצַ֙יִךְ֙ve./'e.Tza.yi/khand/ wood<s>/ your וַֽעֲפָרֵ֔ךְva./'a.fa.Re/khand/ dust/ your בְּת֥וֹךְbe./Tokhin/ [the] midst of מַ֖יִםMa.yim[the] waters יָשִֽׂימוּ׃ya.Si.muthey will put

King James Version

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 water.

Cross-references

Isaiah 23:8 Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?
2 Chronicles 32:27 Hezekiah had very great riches and honor, and he made treasuries for his silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields, and all kinds of valuable articles.
Amos 5:11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
Zechariah 9:3 Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
2 Chronicles 36:10 In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Isaiah 23:11 The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.
Isaiah 23:17 And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
Isaiah 32:12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,
Jeremiah 25:34 Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.
Ezekiel 26:5 She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,