Ezekiel
Chapter Twenty-Seven
1 The word of Jehovah
came again unto me, saying,
2 And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
3 and say unto Tyre, O thou that dwellest at the entry of the sea, that art
the merchant of the peoples unto many isles, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou,
O Tyre, hast said, I am perfect in beauty.
4 Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy
beauty.
5 They have made all thy planks of fir-trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar
from Lebanon to make a mast for thee.
6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; they have made thy benches
of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim.
7 Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was thy sail, that it might be
to thee for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thine awning.
8 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre,
were in thee, they were thy pilots.
9 The old men of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all
the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to deal in thy merchandise.
10 Persia and Lud and Put were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the
shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and valorous
men were in thy towers; they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about;
they have perfected thy beauty.
12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches;
with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares.
13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers; they traded the persons
of men and vessels of brass for thy merchandise.
14 They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares with horses and war-horses
and mules.
15 The men of Dedan were thy traffickers; many isles were the mart of thy hand:
they brought thee in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.
16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of thy handiworks: they
traded for thy wares with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen,
and coral, and rubies.
17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy traffickers: they traded for
thy merchandise wheat of Minnith, and pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
18 Damascus was thy merchant for the multitude of thy handiworks, by reason
of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white
wool.
19 Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares: bright iron, cassia, and
calamus, were among thy merchandise.
20 Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of thy hand;
in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they thy merchants.
22 The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy traffickers; they traded
for thy wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and
gold.
23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad,
were thy traffickers.
24 These were thy traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and broidered
work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made of cedar, among
thy merchandise.
25 The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy merchandise: and thou wast
replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.
26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken
thee in the heart of the seas.
27 Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots,
thy calkers, and the dealers in thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that
are in thee, with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall
into the heart of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
28 At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the suburbs shall shake.
29 And all that handled the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea,
shall come down from their ships; they shall stand upon the land,
30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly,
and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the
ashes:
31 and they shall make themselves bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth,
and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament
over thee, saying, Who is there like Tyre, like her that is brought to silence
in the midst of the sea?
33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many peoples; thou
didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of
thy merchandise.
34 In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters,
thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the midst of thee.
35 All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and their kings
are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance.
36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and
thou shalt nevermore have any being.
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