I tell you, Tyre and Sidon will be better off on judgment day than you.

但我告诉你们，当审判的日子，推罗、西顿所受的，比你们还容易受呢！

但我告诉你们，在审判的日子，推罗和西顿所受的，比你们还容易受呢！

但我告诉你们，在审判的日子，推罗和西顿所受的，比你们还容易受呢！

所以我告诉你们，在审判之日，你们将比泰尔和西顿受更重的刑罚！

但我告诉你们，在审判的日子，推罗和西顿所受的，比你们还轻呢。

不过我告诉你们：在那审判的日子，提尔和西顿所受的，将要比你们还容易受呢！

但我告訴你們，當審判的日子，泰爾、西頓所受的，比你們還容易受呢！

但我告訴你們，在審判的日子，推羅和西頓所受的，比你們還容易受呢！

但我告訴你們，在審判的日子，推羅和西頓所受的，比你們還容易受呢！

所以我告訴你們，在審判之日，你們將比泰爾和西頓受更重的刑罰！

但我告訴你們，在審判的日子，推羅和西頓所受的，比你們還輕呢。

然而我告訴你們，當審判的日子、推羅西頓所受的，必比你們還容易受呢！

不過我告訴你們：在那審判的日子，提爾和西頓所受的，將要比你們還容易受呢！

我語汝、當鞫日、推羅西頓之刑、較爾猶易受也、

吾語汝、當審判日、推羅西頓之刑、較爾尤易受也、

吾告爾、當審判日、推羅西頓之刑、較爾之刑猶易受也、

第吾語爾、審判之日、諦羅西同之所受、較爾猶易堪也。

But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

But I tell you this. On judgment day it will be easier for Tyre and Sidon than for you.

But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.

But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment, than for you.

But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.

But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you!

But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

I tell you the truth, the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah will be better off than such a town on the judgment day.

I tell you, even Sodom will be better off on judgment day than you.”

“ And a servant who knows what the master wants, but isn’t prepared and doesn’t carry out those instructions, will be severely punished.But someone who does not know, and then does something wrong, will be punished only lightly. When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required.

And I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak.

This is what the Lord says:“ The people of Tyre have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! They broke their treaty of brotherhood with Israel, selling whole villages as slaves to Edom.So I will send down fire on the walls of Tyre, and all its fortresses will be destroyed.”

So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment.

“ Son of man, the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon fought so hard against Tyre that the warriors’ heads were rubbed bare and their shoulders were raw and blistered. Yet Nebuchadnezzar and his army won no plunder to compensate them for all their work.

Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins.There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us.For we know the one who said,“ I will take revenge. I will pay them back.” He also said,“ The Lord will judge his own people.”It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

This message came to me concerning Tyre: Wail, you trading ships of Tarshish, for the harbor and houses of Tyre are gone! The rumors you heard in Cyprus are all true.Mourn in silence, you people of the coast and you merchants of Sidon. Your traders crossed the sea,sailing over deep waters. They brought you grain from Egypt and harvests from along the Nile. You were the marketplace of the world.But now you are put to shame, city of Sidon, for Tyre, the fortress of the sea, says,“ Now I am childless; I have no sons or daughters.”When Egypt hears the news about Tyre, there will be great sorrow.Send word now to Tarshish! Wail, you people who live in distant lands!Is this silent ruin all that is left of your once joyous city? What a long history was yours! Think of all the colonists you sent to distant places.Who has brought this disaster on Tyre, that great creator of kingdoms? Her traders were all princes, her merchants were nobles.The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has done it to destroy your pride and bring low all earth’s nobility.Come, people of Tarshish, sweep over the land like the flooding Nile, for Tyre is defenseless.The Lord held out his hand over the sea and shook the kingdoms of the earth. He has spoken out against Phoenicia, ordering that her fortresses be destroyed.He says,“ Never again will you rejoice, O daughter of Sidon, for you have been crushed. Even if you flee to Cyprus, you will find no rest.”Look at the land of Babylonia— the people of that land are gone! The Assyrians have handed Babylon over to the wild animals of the desert. They have built siege ramps against its walls, torn down its palaces, and turned it to a heap of rubble.Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your harbor is destroyed!For seventy years, the length of a king’s life, Tyre will be forgotten. But then the city will come back to life as in the song about the prostitute:Take a harp and walk the streets, you forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody and sing your songs so you will be remembered again.Yes, after seventy years the Lord will revive Tyre. But she will be no different than she was before. She will again be a prostitute to all kingdoms around the world.But in the end her profits will be given to the Lord. Her wealth will not be hoarded but will provide good food and fine clothing for the Lord’s priests.

and the kings of Tyre and Sidon, and the kings of the regions across the sea.

So what makes us think we can escape if we ignore this great salvation that was first announced by the Lord Jesus himself and then delivered to us by those who heard him speak?

Then send messages to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through their ambassadors who have come to see King Zedekiah in Jerusalem.

On February 3, during the twelfth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the Lord:“ Son of man, Tyre has rejoiced over the fall of Jerusalem, saying,‘ Ha! She who was the gateway to the rich trade routes to the east has been broken, and I am the heir! Because she has been made desolate, I will become wealthy!’“ Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am your enemy, O Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the waves of the sea crashing against your shoreline.They will destroy the walls of Tyre and tear down its towers. I will scrape away its soil and make it a bare rock!It will be just a rock in the sea, a place for fishermen to spread their nets, for I have spoken, says the Sovereign Lord. Tyre will become the prey of many nations,and its mainland villages will be destroyed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.“ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: From the north I will bring King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon against Tyre. He is king of kings and brings his horses, chariots, charioteers, and great army.First he will destroy your mainland villages. Then he will attack you by building a siege wall, constructing a ramp, and raising a roof of shields against you.He will pound your walls with battering rams and demolish your towers with sledgehammers.The hooves of his horses will choke the city with dust, and the noise of the charioteers and chariot wheels will shake your walls as they storm through your broken gates.His horsemen will trample through every street in the city. They will butcher your people, and your strong pillars will topple.“ They will plunder all your riches and merchandise and break down your walls. They will destroy your lovely homes and dump your stones and timbers and even your dust into the sea.I will stop the music of your songs. No more will the sound of harps be heard among your people.I will make your island a bare rock, a place for fishermen to spread their nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the Lord, have spoken. Yes, the Sovereign Lord has spoken!“ This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Tyre: The whole coastline will tremble at the sound of your fall, as the screams of the wounded echo in the continuing slaughter.All the seaport rulers will step down from their thrones and take off their royal robes and beautiful clothing. They will sit on the ground trembling with horror at your destruction.Then they will wail for you, singing this funeral song:“ O famous island city, once ruler of the sea, how you have been destroyed! Your people, with their naval power, once spread fear around the world.Now the coastlands tremble at your fall. The islands are dismayed as you disappear.“ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will make Tyre an uninhabited ruin, like many others. I will bury you beneath the terrible waves of enemy attack. Great seas will swallow you.I will send you to the pit to join those who descended there long ago. Your city will lie in ruins, buried beneath the earth, like those in the pit who have entered the world of the dead. You will have no place of respect here in the land of the living.I will bring you to a terrible end, and you will exist no more. You will be looked for, but you will never again be found. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

And by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been stored up for fire. They are being kept for the day of judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed.

Doom is certain for Hamath, near Damascus, and for the cities of Tyre and Sidon, though they are so clever.Tyre has built a strong fortress and has made silver and gold as plentiful as dust in the streets!

Yes, Tyre and Sidon will be better off on judgment day than you.

For it is impossible to bring back to repentance those who were once enlightened— those who have experienced the good things of heaven and shared in the Holy Spirit,who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the power of the age to come—and who then turn away from God. It is impossible to bring such people back to repentance; by rejecting the Son of God, they themselves are nailing him to the cross once again and holding him up to public shame.When the ground soaks up the falling rain and bears a good crop for the farmer, it has God’s blessing.But if a field bears thorns and thistles, it is useless. The farmer will soon condemn that field and burn it.