A   It happened, that in the eleuenth yeare, the fyrst daye of þe; moneth the worde of the Lord came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of m&abar;,

^note because that Tyre hath spok&ebar; vp&obar; Ierusalem: A, ha, now I trowe the portes of the people be broken, and she turned vnto me, for now þt; she is destroyed I shall be fylled. Yee, therfore, sayeth þe; Lord God: Beholde O Tyre, I will vp&obar; þe;, I will br&ibar;ge a great multitude of people agaynst þe;, lyke as wh&ebar; the see aryseth with his waues: These shall breake the walles of Tyre, and cast downe her towres: I will scrape the gro&ubar;de from her, and make her a bare stone: yee, as the dryenge place, where the fysshers h&abar;ge vp theyr nettes by þe; see syde. Eu&ebar; I haue spoken it, sayeth the Lorde God. The G&ebar;tyls shall spoyle her: her daughters vp&obar; þe; felde shall perysh &wt; the swearde, B   that they maye knowe how that I am the Lorde.

For thus sayeth the Lord God: Behold, I will br&ibar;g hither Nabuchodonosor (which is the kynge of Babylon, and a kynge of kynges) fr&obar; þe; North vpon Tyre: &wt; horses, charettes, horssmen, and with a greate multitude of people. Thy daughters that are &ibar; the l&abar;d, shall he slaye with the sweard: but agaynst the, he shall make bullworkes and graue vp dyches aboute þe;, and lyft vp hys shylde agaynst the. Hys slynges and batelr&abar;mes shal he prepare for thy walles, and &wt; his weapens breake downe thy towres. The dust of hys horses shall couer the, they shalbe so many: thy walles shall shake at þe; noyse of the horsmen, charettes and wheles when he commeth to thy portes, as men do into an op&ebar; cytie. With þe; hoffes of his horse fete, shall he treade downe all thy stretes.

C   He shal slaye the people with the sweard, and breake downe þe; pylers of thy str&ebar;gth. They shall waste awaye thy ryches, and spoyle thy marcha&ubar;dyse. Thy walles shall they breake downe, and destroye thy houses of pleasure. Thy stones, thy tymbre &abar;d foundacyons shall they cast in the water.

^noteThus will I bring þe; melody of thy songes, and the voyce of thy mynstrelsy to an ende, so that they shall nomore be herde. I will make a bare stone of the, yee, a dry&ibar;ge place for nettes, ∧ þu; shalt neuer be buylded agayne: For euen I the Lord haue spok&ebar; it, sayeth the Lorde God: thus hath the Lorde God spoken concernynge Tyre. The Iles shall be moued at the noyse of thy fall, ∧ at the crye of the slayne, þt; shall be murthered &ibar; the. All kynges of the see shall come downe from theyr seates regall: they shall laye awaye theyr roabes, and put of theyr costly clothynge. D   Yee, with tremblinge shall they be clothed, they shall syt vpon the ground: they shalbe afrayed at thy soden fall, &abar;d be abasshed at the.

They shall mourne for the, and saye vnto the. ^noteO thou noble cytie, that hast bene so greatly occupyed of olde, thou that hast bene the strongest vpon the see with thyne inhabytours, of whom al men stode &ibar; feare. How arte thou nowe so vtterly destroyed? Now at þe; tyme of thy fall þe; inhabytours of the Iles, yee, and the Iles them selues, shall stande &ibar; feare at thy ende. For thus sayeth the Lorde God: wh&ebar; I make the a desolate cytie (as other cyties be, that no m&abar; dwell in) and wh&ebar; I bringe the depe vpon þe; that greate waters maye couer the. Then wil I cast the downe vnto th&ebar;, that descende into the pitte: vnto a people that hath bene l&obar;ge deed, and set the &ibar; a lande that is beneth, lyke the olde wildernes, with them which go downe to theyr graues, so that no m&abar; shall dwell more in the. And I will make the to be nomore in honoure, in the lande of the lyuinge. I will make an ende of the, and thou shalt be gone. Though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou not be founde for euermore, sayeth the Lorde God.

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