The Lantern

Ezekiel27

A Lament for Tyre

The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

Now, you son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;

And say to Tyre, O you who are situate at the entry of the sea, who are a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus says the Lord GOD; O Tyre, you have said, I am of perfect beauty.

Your borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.

They have made all your ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you.

Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; the company of the Ashurites have made your benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.

Fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was that which you spread forth to be your sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered you.

The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your mariners: your wise men, O Tyre, that were in you, were your pilots.

The ancients of Gebal and its wise men were in you your caulkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to trade in your merchandise.

They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in your army, your warriors: they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set forth your comeliness.

The men of Arvad with your army were upon your walls around, and the Gammadims were in your towers: they hanged their shields upon your walls around; they have made your beauty perfect.

Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in your fairs.

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of bronze in your market.

They of the house of Togarmah traded in your fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

The men of Dedan were your merchants; many isles were the merchandise of your hand: they brought you for a present horns of ivory and ebony.

Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of your making: they occupied in your fairs with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.

Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your merchants: they traded in your market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

Damascus was your merchant in the multitude of the wares of your making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

Dan also and Javan going back and forth occupied in your fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in your market.

Dedan was your merchant in precious clothes for chariots.

Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with you in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they your merchants.

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants: they occupied in your fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were your merchants.

These were your merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and embroidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among your merchandise.

The ships of Tarshish did sing of you in your market: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas.

Your riches, and your fairs, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your caulkers, and the occupiers of your merchandise, and all your warriors, that are in you, and in all your company in the midst of you, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of your ruin.

The pasturelands shall shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots.

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

And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, What city is like Tyre, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many people; you did enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.

In the time when you shall be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters your merchandise and all your company in the midst of you shall fall.

All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at you, and their kings shall be greatly afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

The merchants among the people shall hiss at you; you shall be a terror, and never shall be any more.