Ezekiel 26 text walkthrough: the prophecy uses two distinct sets of pronouns — 'he' (Nebuchadnezzar) and 'they' (multiple later nations) — specifying different actors for different actions.
This pronoun distinction is the key to properly understanding the prophecy and refuting Ra's objection.
The prophecy opens in v.3 with 'many nations' coming like waves. It then shifts to 'he' (Nebuchadnezzar specifically) in vv.7–11, who will: destroy daughter villages, build a siege mound, breach the city gates, trample the streets, slay the people, break the towers. Then in v.12 the pronoun shifts to 'they,' who will: plunder the riches, break down the walls, lay the stones/timber/soil into the midst of the water (an extraordinarily specific action), and make it like the top of a rock. The 'never be rebuilt' prediction and the fishermen-casting-nets image belong to this second phase. Ra conflates both phases as if Nebuchadnezzar was supposed to do everything.
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