27Ezekiel 27

1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:Select Ezekiel 27:1

2Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre:Select Ezekiel 27:2

3And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect beauty,Select Ezekiel 27:3

4And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty:Select Ezekiel 27:4

5With fir trees of Sanir they have built thee with all sea planks: they have taken cedars from Libanus to make thee masts.Select Ezekiel 27:5

6They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they have made thee benches of Indian ivory and cabins with things brought from the islands of Italy.Select Ezekiel 27:6

7Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made thy covering.Select Ezekiel 27:7

8The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots.Select Ezekiel 27:8

9The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.Select Ezekiel 27:9

10The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy ornament.Select Ezekiel 27:10

11The men of Arad were with thy army upon thy walls round about: the Pygmeans also that were in thy towers, hung up their quivers on thy walls round about: they perfected thy beauty.Select Ezekiel 27:11

12The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead,Select Ezekiel 27:12

13Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants, they brought to thy people slaves and vessels of brass.Select Ezekiel 27:13

14From the house of Thogorma they brought horses, and horsemen, and mules to thy market.Select Ezekiel 27:14

15The men of Dedan were thy merchants: many islands were the traffic of thy hand, they exchanged for thy price teeth of ivory and ebony.Select Ezekiel 27:15

16The Syrian was thy merchant: by reason of the multitude of thy works, they set forth precious stories, and purple, and broidered works, and fine linen, and silk, and chodchod in thy market.Select Ezekiel 27:16

17Juda and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants with the best corn: they set forth balm, and honey, and oil and rosin in thy fairs.Select Ezekiel 27:17

18The men of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of thy works, the multitude of divers riches, in rich wine, in wool of the best colour.Select Ezekiel 27:18

19Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.Select Ezekiel 27:19

20The men of Dedan were thy merchants in tapestry for seats.Select Ezekiel 27:20

21Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar, they were the merchants of thy hand: thy merchants came to thee with lambs, and rams, and kids.Select Ezekiel 27:21

22The sellers of Saba, and Reema, they were thy merchants: with all the best spices, and precious stones, and gold, which they set forth in thy market.Select Ezekiel 27:22

23Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy merchants; Saba, Assur, and Chelmad sold to thee.Select Ezekiel 27:23

24They were thy merchants in divers manners, with bales of blue cloth, and of embroidered work, and of precious riches, which were wrapped up and bound with cords: they had cedars also in thy merchandise.Select Ezekiel 27:24

25The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea.Select Ezekiel 27:25

26Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind hath broken thee in the heart of the sea.Select Ezekiel 27:26

27Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy manifold furniture, thy mariners, and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and were chief over thy people: thy men of war also, that were in thee, with all thy multitude that is in the midst of thee: shall fall in the heart of the sea in the day of thy ruin.Select Ezekiel 27:27

28Thy fleets shall be troubled at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.Select Ezekiel 27:28

29And all that handled the oar shall come down from their ships: the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea shall stand upon the land:Select Ezekiel 27:29

30And they shall mourn over thee with a loud voice and shall cry bitterly: and they shall cast up dust upon their heads and shall be sprinkled with ashes.Select Ezekiel 27:30

31And they shall shave themselves bald for thee, and shall be girded with haircloth: and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of soul, with most bitter weeping.Select Ezekiel 27:31

32And they shall take up a mournful song for thee, and shall lament thee: What city is like Tyre, which is become silent in the midst of the sea?Select Ezekiel 27:32

33Which by thy merchandise that went from thee by sea didst fill many people: which by the multitude of thy riches, and of thy people didst enrich the kings of the earth.Select Ezekiel 27:33

34Now thou art destroyed by the sea, thy riches are in the bottom of the waters, and all the multitude that was in the midst of thee is fallen.Select Ezekiel 27:34

35All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at thee: and all their kings being struck with the storm have changed their countenance.Select Ezekiel 27:35

36The merchants of people have hissed at thee: thou art brought to nothing, and thou shalt never be any more.Select Ezekiel 27:36