Ezekiel 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 * .
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.
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 * .
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:
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?
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.
