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Chapter 27 |
| 1 | The word of
the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
| 2 | Now, thou son of man, take up a
lamentation for Tyrus; |
| 3 | And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate
at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
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| 4 | Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected
thy beauty. |
| 5
| They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir:
they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. |
| 6 | Of the
oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have
made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim. |
| 7 | Fine
linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be
thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered
thee. |
| 8 |
The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise
men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. |
| 9 | The ancients
of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of
the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. |
| 10 |
They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they
hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. |
| 11 |
The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the
Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round
about; they have made thy beauty perfect. |
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12 | Tarshish was thy merchant
by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and
lead, they traded in thy fairs. |
| 13 | Javan, Tubal, and Meshech,
they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in
thy market. |
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14 | They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs
with horses and horsemen and mules. |
| 15 | The men of Dedan were thy
merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for
a present horns of ivory and ebony. |
| 16 | Syria was thy merchant by
reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs
with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and
agate. |
| 17
| Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants:
they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and
balm. |
| 18 |
Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy
making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white
wool. |
| 19 |
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs:
bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. |
| 20 | Dedan was
thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. |
| 21 | Arabia, and
all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and
goats: in these were they thy merchants. |
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22 | The merchants of Sheba and
Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all
spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. |
| 23 | Haran, and
Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy
merchants. |
| 24
| These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue
clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords,
and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. |
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25 | The ships of Tarshish did
sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious
in the midst of the seas. |
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26 | Thy rowers have brought thee into
great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
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| 27 | Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy
pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of
war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee,
shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. |
| 28 | The
suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. |
| 29 | 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; |
| 30 | And shall
cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall
cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
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| 31 | And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with
sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter
wailing. |
| 32
| And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for
thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed
in the midst of the sea? |
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33 | When thy wares went forth out of the
seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with
the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise. |
| 34 | In the time
when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy
merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. |
| 35 |
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings
shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. |
| 36 |
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and
never shalt be any more. |
