Bible Verses About Tyre: All nations to be terrified at its destruction

To Tzor Adonai ELOHIM says: "How the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter takes place in you!

Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones; they will put aside their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, trembling all the time, appalled at your condition.

Then they will raise this lament for you: "'How you have been destroyed, you who were peopled from the seas, city so renowned, once so strong at sea, you and your inhabitants, who used to spread terror over all [the mainland's] inhabitants!

Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall, and the islands in the sea are in shock at your end.'

The oarsmen, crew and pilots will disembark and stand on shore,

mourning aloud at your fate, crying bitterly, throwing dust on their heads, rolling in the ashes,

shaving their heads bald for you, wrapping themselves in sackcloth, with heartfelt bitterness weeping for you in bitter lamentation.

Wailing, they will raise a lament for you; this will be their lament for you: "'"Who anywhere in the sea has ever been silenced like Tzor?

When your wares came forth from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with your vast wealth and variety of goods you enriched the kings of the earth.

But now you have been wrecked by the waves, sunk in the watery depths; your merchandise and all your people have gone down with you.

All who live along the coasts are aghast at you; their kings are horribly afraid, their faces are convulsed;

the merchants among the peoples are gasping at your fate; you are an object of terror, and you will cease to exist."'"

On seeing this, Ashkelon will be terrified; 'Azah too will writhe in pain; likewise 'Ekron, as her hopes are dashed. "The king will vanish from 'Azah, Ashkelon will be without people,