¹ And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

² Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;

⁷ He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth! They went forth, and struck in the city.