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Ezekiel 27

¹The word of YHWH came again unto me, saying, ²And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre; ³and say unto Tyre, O you that dwellest at the entry of the sea, that are the merchant of the peoples unto many isles, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou, O Tyre, hast said, I am perfect in beauty. ⁴Thy borders are in the heare of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty. ⁵They have made all your planks of fir-trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for thee. ⁶Of the oaks of Bashan have they made yours oars; they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim. ⁷Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to thee for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thine awning. ⁸The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were your pilots. ⁹The old men of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee your calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to deal in thy merchandise. ¹⁰Persia and Lud and Put were in yours army, your men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. ¹¹The men of Arvad with yours army were upon thy walls round about, and valorous men were in your towers; they hanged their shields upon your walls round about; they have perfected thy beauty. 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. ¹³Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise. ¹⁴They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares with horses and war-horses and mules. ¹⁵The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many isles were the mare of your hand: they brought thee in exchange horns of ivory and ebony. ¹⁶Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks: they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies. ¹⁷Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers: they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. 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. ¹⁹Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise. ²⁰Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding. 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. 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. ²³Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur [and] Chilmad, were your traffickers. ²⁴These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise. ²⁵The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise: and you wast replenished, and made very glorious in the heare of the seas. ²⁶Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heare of the seas. ²⁷Thy riches, and thy wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your calkers, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, that are in thee, with all your company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heare of the seas in the day of your ruin. ²⁸At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake. ²⁹And all that handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand upon the land, ³⁰and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: ³¹and they shall make themselves bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning. ³²And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her that is brought to silence in the midst of the sea? ³³When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filledst many peoples; you didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise. ³⁴In the time that you wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of thee. ³⁵All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance. ³⁶The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; you are become a terror, and thou shall nevermore have any being.

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