Ezekiel

Ezekiel 27

1The riches and large commerce of Tyrus. 26Her great and irrecoverable fall.

1THE word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

2Now, thou son of man, ^atake up a lamentation for Tyrus;

a ch. 26.16,17. v.32. ch. 19; 32. Je. 9.17,18. Is. 15.5; 16.9.

3And say unto Tyrus, O thou ^bthat art situate at the entry of the sea, which art ^ca merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am ¹of perfect beauty.

b 1Ki. 5.9. Is. 23.1-4,6. ch. 28.2,3. c v.5-24. Is. 23.2,3,8,11. Re. 18.7.

4Thy borders are in the ²midst of the seas, ^dthy builders have perfected thy beauty.

d 1Ki. 5.6. Ps. 45.12.

5They have ³made all thy ship boards of fir trees of ^eSenir: they have taken ^fcedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

e De. 3.9; 4.48. f 1Ki. 5.1,6. Ps. 92.12; 104. Is. 14.8.

6Of the ^goaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; ⁴the ⁵company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of ^hChittim.

g Zec. 11.2. Is. 2.13. Am. 2.9. h Ge. 10.4,5. Nu. 24.24. Je. 2.10.

7ⁱFine linen with ^*broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be ^jthy sail; ⁶blue and purple from the isles of ^kElishah was that which covered thee.

i 1Ki. 10.28. Pr. 7.16. Is. 19.9. j Is. 33.23. k Ge. 10.4. 1Ch. 1.7.

8The inhabitants of ^lZidon and ^mArvad were thy mariners: thy ⁿwise men , O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.

l Is. 23.2,4,12. Ge. 10.15. Jos. 19.28. m Is. 10.9. Je. 49.23. 2Ki. 18.23. Ge. 10.18. n 1Ki. 9.27; 5.6.

9The ^*ancients of ^oGebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy ⁷calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to ^*occupy thy merchandise.

o Ps. 83.7. 1Ki. 5.18. Jos. 13.5.

10They of ⁸Persia and of ^pLud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy ^*comeliness.

p Ge. 10.6,13,22. Is. 66.19. Na. 3.9. Je. 46.9. ch. 30.5; 38.5.

11^qThe men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.

q v.8. ch. 26.8,9.

12^rTarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.

r Ge. 10.4. 1Ki. 10.22. 2Ch. 20.36,37. Is. 2.16; 23.1,6,10. Ps. 72.10. Je. 10.9. Jonah 1.3. Ac. 9.11; 21.39. ch. 38.13.

13^sJavan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the ^tpersons of men and vessels of brass in thy ⁹market.

s Ge. 10.2. ch. 38.2; 39.1. t Joel 3.6. Re. 18.13.

14They of the house of ^uTogarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

u Ge. 10.3. ch. 38.6. 1Ch. 1.6.

15The men of ^vDedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ^wivory and ebony.

v Ge. 10.7; 25.3. Je. 25.23; 49.8. ch. 25.13. w 1Ki. 10.22.

16¹⁰Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of ¹¹thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and ^*broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and ¹²agate.

17^xJudah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market ^ywheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and ^z13balm.

x 1Ki. 12; 16. y 1Ki. 5.9,11. Ezr. 3.7. Ac. 12.20. Ju. 11.33. z Je. 8.22.

18^aDamascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

a Ge. 15.2. 1Ki. 11.24,25. Is. 7.8.

19Dan also and Javan ¹⁴going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, ^bcassia, and calamus, were in thy market.

b Ex. 30.23,24. Ca. 4.13,14.

20^cDedan was thy merchant in ¹⁵precious clothes for chariots.

c Ge. 25.3. Je. 49.8.

21^dArabia, and all the princes of Kedar, ¹⁶they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.

d 2Ch. 17.11. Ge. 25.13. Is. 60.7; 21.16.

22The merchants of ^eSheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

e Ge. 10.7. Ps. 72.10,15. Is. 60.6. 1Ki. 10.1-13.

23^fHaran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of ^gSheba, ^hAsshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.

f Ge. 11.31. 2Ki. 19.12. Ac. 7.4. Am. 6.2. Ge. 2.8; 10.10. Is. 10.9; 37.12. g Ge. 25.3. Job 1.15. h Ge. 10.22,11. Nu. 24.22. 2Ki. 15.19. Is. 7.18,20.

24These were thy merchants in ¹⁷all sorts of things , in blue ¹⁸clothes, and ^*broidered work, and in chests of rich ^*apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.

25The ⁱships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

i 1Ki. 10.22. Is. 23.14; 2.16; 60.9. Ps. 48.7.

26¶Thy ¹⁹rowers have brought thee ^jinto great waters: the ^keast wind hath broken thee in the ²⁰midst of the seas.

j Ps. 69.1,2; 130.1; 18.16; 144.7. Je. 51.42. k Ps. 48.7. ch. 17.10; 19.12; 26.7; 29.18. Je. 4.12,13. Hab. 1.6-9.

27Thy ^lriches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, ²¹and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, ^mshall fall into the ²²midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

l v.4-24. ch. 26.12. Re. 18.11-13. Pr. 11.4. m ch. 26.5,12,14,19,21. v.26,34.

28The ²³suburbs shall ⁿshake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

n v.35. ch. 26.15,18; 32.10. Ex. 15.14.

29^oAnd all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, ^pshall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;

o Re. 18.17,18. p ch. 26.16; 32.10.

30^qAnd shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall ^rcast up dust upon their heads, they shall ^swallow themselves in the ashes:

q ch. 26.17; 28.12. Is. 23.1,4-6. Ho. 10.5. Re. 18.9-19. r 1Sa. 4.12. Job 2.12. Je. 6.26. Re. 18.19. s Jonah 3.6. Je. 6.26. Mi. 1.10. Job 2.8,12; 42.6. Es. 4.1,3.

31And they shall make themselves ^tutterly bald for thee, and ^*gird them ^uwith sackcloth, and they shall ^vweep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

t Mi. 1.16. Je. 16.6. Is. 3.24. De. 14.1. Le. 18.28. Job 1.20. u Es. 4.1-4. v Mi. 1.8. Is. 15.5; 16.9; 22.4.

32And in their wailing they shall ^wtake up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying , ^xWhat city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

w Je. 9.17,18; 22.18. Re. 18.10-19. ch. 19; 32; 30.2. x Re. 18.18. La. 2.13; 1.12.

33When ^ythy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the ^zmultitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

y v.12-25. Is. 23.2,3,8. Zec. 9.3. Re. 18.12-14. z v.27. ch. 28.16.

34In the time when ^athou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.

a v.26,27. ch. 26.3,7,12,14,19,21. Zec. 9.4. Is. 8.7,8. ch. 29.8,18.

35^bAll the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be ^*sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

b ch. 26.15-18. Re. 18.2,9-19.

36The merchants among the people shall ^chiss at thee; thou shalt be ²⁴a terror, and ²⁵never shalt be any more.

c Job 12.5. 1Ki. 9.8. ch. 26.2. Pr. 17.5. Mat. 7.2.