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