Ezekiel 27 — ENGLXXUP

27 Verse 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^{Verse 2} And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation against Tyre; ^{Verse 3} and thou shalt say to Tyre that dwells at the entrance of the sea, to the mart of the nations coming from many islands, Thus saith the Lord to Tyre; ^{Verse 4} In the heart of the sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim. ^{Verse 5} Cedar in Senir was employed for thee in building: boards of cypress timber were taken out of Lebanon, and wood to make thee masts of fir. ^{Verse 6} They made thine oars of wood out of the land of Bashan; thy sacred utensils they made of ivory, thy shady houses of wood from the isles of Kittim. ^{Verse 7} Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied thy couch, to put honor upon thee, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the isles of Elishah; and they became thy coverings. ^{Verse 8} And thy princes were the dwellers in Sidon, and the Arvadites were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, who were in thee, these were thy pilots. ^{Verse 9} The elders of the Gebalians, and their wise men, who were in thee, these helped thy counsel: and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for thee to the utmost west. ^{Verse 10} Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army: thy warriors hung in thee shields and helmets; these gave thee thy glory. ^{Verse 11} The sons of the Arvadites and thine army were upon thy walls; there were guards in thy towers: they hung their quivers on thy battlements round about; these completed thy beauty. ^{Verse 12} The Carthaginians were thy merchants because of the abundance of all thy strength; they furnished thy market with silver, and gold, and iron, and tin, and lead. ^{Verse 13} Greece, both the whole world, and the adjacent coasts, these traded with thee in the persons of men, and they gave as thy merchandise vessels of brass. ^{Verse 14} Out of the house of Togarmah horses and horsemen furnished thy market. ^{Verse 15} The sons of the Rhodesians were thy merchants; from the islands they multiplied thy merchandise, even elephants’ teeth: and to them that came in thou didst return thy prices, ^{Verse 16} even men as thy merchandise, from the multitude of thy trading population, myrrh and embroidered works from Tarshish: Ramoth also and Chorchor furnished thy market. ^{Verse 17} Judah and the children of Israel, these were thy merchants; in the sale of corn and ointments and cassia: and they gave the best honey, and oil, and resin, to thy trading population. ^{Verse 18} The people of Damascus were thy merchants by reason of the abundance of all thy power; wine out of Helbon, and wool from Miletus; and they brought wine into thy market. ^{Verse 19} Out of Uzqal came wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels among thy trading population. ^{Verse 20} The people of Dedan were thy merchants, with choice cattle for chariots. ^{Verse 21} Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, these were thy traders with thee, bringing camels, and lambs, and rams, in which they trade with thee. ^{Verse 22} The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, these were thy merchants, with choice spices, and precious stones: and they brought gold to thy market. ^{Verse 23} Haran, and Canneh, these were thy merchants: Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants: ^{Verse 24} bringing for merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords, and cypress wood. ^{Verse 25} Ships were thy merchants, in abundance, with thy trading population: and thou wast filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea. ^{Verse 26} Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind has broken thee in the heart of the sea. ^{Verse 27} Thy forces, and thy gain, and that of thy traders, and thy rowers, and thy pilots, and thy counselors, and they that traffic with thee, and all thy warriors that are in thee: and all thy company in the midst of thee shall perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of thy fall. ^{Verse 28} At the cry of thy voice thy pilots shall be greatly terrified. ^{Verse 29} And all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land. ^{Verse 30} And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them. ^{Verse 32} And their sons shall take up a lament for thee, even a lamentation for Tyre, saying, ^{Verse 33} How large a reward hast thou gained from the sea? thou hast filled nations out of thine abundance; and out of thy mixed merchandise thou hast enriched all the kings of the earth. ^{Verse 34} Now art thou broken in the sea, thy traders are in the deep water, and all thy company in the midst of thee: all thy rowers have fallen. ^{Verse 35} All the dwellers in the islands have mourned over thee, and their kings have been utterly amazed, and their countenance has wept. ^{Verse 36} Merchants from the nations have hissed at thee; thou art utterly destroyed, and shalt not be anymore forever.