| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 26 |
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee
in the midst of the seas. |
| 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. |
