Ezekiel 27

¹The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

²And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;

³And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of the sea, trading for the peoples with the great sea-lands, these are the words of the Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship completely beautiful.

⁴Your builders have made your outlines in the heart of the seas, they have made you completely beautiful.

⁵They have made all your boards of fir-trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make the supports for your sails.

⁶Of oak-trees from Bashan they have made your driving blades; they have made your floors of ivory and boxwood from the sea-lands of Kittim.

⁷The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade.

⁸The people of Zidon and Arvad were your boatmen; the wise men of Zemer were in you; they were guiding your ships;

⁹The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods.

¹⁰Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, hanging up their body-covers and head-dresses of war in you: they gave you your glory.

¹¹The men of Arvad in your army were on your walls, and were watchmen in your towers, hanging up their arms on your walls round about; they made you completely beautiful.

¹²Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.

¹³Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave living men and brass vessels for your goods.

¹⁴The people of Togarmah gave horses and war-horses and transport beasts for your goods.

¹⁵The men of Rodan were your traders: a great number of sea-lands did business with you: they gave you horns of ivory and ebony as an offering.

¹⁶Edom did business with you because of the great number of things which you made; they gave emeralds, purple, and needlework, and the best linen and coral and rubies for your goods.

¹⁷Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave grain of Minnith and sweet cakes and honey and oil and perfume for your goods.

¹⁸Damascus did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth, with wine of Helbon and white wool.

¹⁹... for your goods: they gave polished iron and spices for your goods.

²⁰Dedan did trade with you in cloths for the backs of horses.

²¹Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar did business with you; in lambs and sheep and goats, in these they did business with you.

²²The traders of Sheba and Raamah did trade with you; they gave the best of all sorts of spices and all sorts of stones of great price and gold for your goods.

²³Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Asshur and all the Medes:

²⁴These were your traders in beautiful robes, in rolls of blue and needlework, and in chests of coloured cloth, corded with cords and made of cedar-wood, in them they did trade with you.

²⁵Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas.

²⁶Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.

²⁷Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.

²⁸At the sound of the cry of your ships' guides, the boards of the ship will be shaking.

²⁹And all the boatmen, the seamen and those who are expert at guiding a ship through the sea, will come down from their ships and take their places on the land;

³⁰And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

³¹And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow.

³²And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea?

³³When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods.

³⁴Now that you are broken by the seas in the deep waters, your goods and all your people will go down with you.

³⁵All the people of the sea-lands are overcome with wonder at you, and their kings are full of fear, their faces are troubled.

³⁶Those who do business among the peoples make sounds of surprise at you; you have become a thing of fear, you have come to an end for ever.

Ezekiel 27

¹The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,

²"You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

³and tell Tyre, 'You who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, thus says the Lord God: "You, Tyre, have said, 'I am perfect in beauty.'

⁴Your borders are in the heart 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 you.

⁶Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the islands of Kittim.

⁷Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you for a banner; blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning.

⁸The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.

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.

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.

¹¹The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, and valorous men were in your towers; they hanged their shields on your walls all around; they have perfected your 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 your traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.

¹⁴They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses and war horses and mules.

¹⁵The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many islands were the market of your hand: they brought you 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 embroidered 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 confections, 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 embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.

²⁵The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.

²⁶"'"Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.

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.

²⁸At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake.

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,

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:

³¹and they shall make themselves bald for you, and clothe them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.

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?'

³³When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many peoples; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.

³⁴In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company fell in your midst.

³⁵All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.

³⁶The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being."'"