Ezekiel 27–28

27The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, ²Now, thou son of man, ^atake up a lamentation for Tyrus; ³And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at ^bthe entry of the sea, which art ^ca merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, ^dI am ^†of perfect beauty. ⁴Thy borders are in the ^†midst of the seas, thy builders ^dhave perfected thy beauty. ⁵They have ^†made all thy ship boards of ^efir trees of ^fSenir: they have taken ^gcedars from Lebanon to make ^hmasts for thee. ⁶Of ⁱthe oaks of Bashan have they made thine ^joars; ^||†the company of ^lthe Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of ^mthe isles of Chittim. ⁷ⁿFine linen with ^obroidered work ^pfrom Egypt was ^qthat which thou spreadest forth to be ^rthy sail; ^||sblue and ^stpurple from the isles of ^uElishah was that which covered thee. ⁸The inhabitants of Zidon and ^vArvad were ^wthy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy ^xpilots. ⁹The ancients of ^yGebal and the wise men thereof were in thee ^zthy ^||†calkers: all the ships of the sea with their ^amariners were in thee ^zto ^boccupy thy merchandise. ¹⁰They of ^cPersia and of ^deLud and of ^cdfPhut were in thine army, ^gthy men of war: ^ggthey hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth ^hthy comeliness. ¹¹The men of ^vArvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: ^ggthey hanged ⁱtheir shields upon thy walls round about; ^jthey have made thy beauty perfect. ^12kTarshish was ^lthy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, ^mthey traded in thy fairs. ^13nopJavan, ^noqTubal, and ^nqrMeshech, they were thy merchants: they traded ^sthe persons of men and vessels of brass in thy ^||market. ¹⁴They of the house of ^tTogarmah ^mtraded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. ¹⁵The men of ^uDedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for ^va present horns of ivory and ebony. ¹⁶Syria was ^lthy merchant by reason of the multitude of ^†the wares of thy making: ^mthey occupied in thy fairs with ^wemeralds, ^xpurple, and ^xbroidered work, and ^yfine linen, and ^zcoral, and ^||aagate. ¹⁷Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market ^bwheat of ^cMinnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and ^||dbalm. ^18eDamascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and ^fwhite wool. ¹⁹Dan also and Javan ^||going to and fro ^goccupied in thy fairs: bright iron, ^hcassia, and ⁱcalamus, were in thy market. ^20kDedan was thy merchant in ^†precious clothes for chariots. ^21lArabia, and all the princes of ^mKedar, ^†they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants. ²²The merchants of ^noSheba and ⁿRaamah, they were ^pthy merchants: ^pthey occupied in thy fairs with ⁱchief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. ^23qHaran, and Canneh, and ^qEden, the merchants of ^oSheba, ^rAsshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants. ²⁴These were thy merchants in ^||all sorts of things, in ^sblue ^†clothes, and ^sbroidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. ^25tThe ships of ^uTarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the ^vmidst of the seas. ^26wThy rowers have brought thee into great waters: ^xthe east wind hath broken thee in the ^†midst of the seas. ^27yThy riches, and ^zthy fairs, ^athy merchandise, ^bthy mariners, and ^cthy pilots, ^bthy calkers, and ^bthe occupiers of thy merchandise, and all ^dthy men of war, that are in thee, ^||and in ^eall thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the ^†midst of the seas ^fin the day of thy ruin. ^28gThe ^||suburbs ^hshall shake at the sound of the cry of ^cthy pilots. ²⁹ⁱAnd all that handle ^kthe oar, ^bthe mariners, and all ^cthe pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; ³⁰ⁱAnd shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall ^locast up dust upon their heads, they shall ^mwallow themselves in the ashes: ³¹And they shall ⁿmake themselves utterly bald for thee, and ^ogird them with sackcloth, and they shall ^lweep for thee ^oowith bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. ³²And in their wailing they shall ^ptake up a lamentation for thee, and ^pplament over thee, saying, ⁱWhat city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed ^qin the midst of the sea? ^33rWhen ^sthy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; ^tthou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of ^athy merchandise. ³⁴In the time ^uwhen thou shalt be broken by the seas ^vin the depths of the waters ^athy merchandise and ^eall thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. ^35wAll the inhabitants of the isles ^xyshall be astonished at thee, and ^ytheir kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. ^36zThe merchants among the people shall ^ahiss at thee; ^bthou shalt be ^†a terror, and ^†never shalt be any more.

28The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, ²Son of man, say unto ^athe prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; ^bBecause ^cthine heart is lifted up, and ^dthou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, ^ein the ^†midst of the seas; yet ^fthou art a man, and not God, though ^gthou set thine heart as the heart of God: ³Behold, ^hthou art wiser than ⁱDaniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: ^4hjWith thy wisdom and with thine understanding ^kthou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: ^5†By thy great wisdom and by ^lthy traffick ^khast thou increased thy riches, and ^cmthine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: ⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ^gthou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; ⁷Behold, therefore I will bring ⁿstrangers upon thee, ^opthe terrible of the nations: and ^othey shall draw their swords against ^qthe beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile ^qthy brightness. ⁸They shall bring thee down ^rto the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain ^ein the midst of the seas. ^9dWilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but ^fthou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that ^||slayeth thee. ¹⁰Thou shalt die the deaths of ^sthe uncircumcised by the hand of ⁿstrangers: for ^tI have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

¹¹Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ¹²Son of man, ^utake up a lamentation upon ^athe king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up ^vthe sum, ^hfull of wisdom, and ^wperfect in beauty. ¹³Thou hast been in ^xEden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, ^ythe ^||sardius, ^yztopaz, and ^athe diamond, ^bthe ^||beryl, ^cthe onyx, and ^dthe jasper, ^ethe sapphire, ^fthe ^||emerald, and ^gthe carbuncle, and ^cgold: ^hthe workmanship of thy ⁱtabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in ^kthe day that thou wast created. ¹⁴Thou art the anointed ^lcherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon ^mthe holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of ⁿthe stones of fire. ¹⁵Thou wast perfect in thy ways from ^kthe day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. ¹⁶By the multitude of ^othy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of ^mthe mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, ^lO covering cherub, from the midst of ⁿthe stones of fire. ^17pThine heart was lifted up because of ^qthy beauty, thou hast corrupted ^qthy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. ^18rThou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of ^othy traffick; therefore ^swill I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. ¹⁹All they that know thee among the people ^tshall be astonished at thee: ^uthou shalt be ^†a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

²⁰Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ²¹Son of man, ^vset thy face ^wagainst Zidon, and ^vprophesy against it, ²²And say, Thus saith the Lord God; ^xBehold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and ^xxI will be glorified in the midst of thee: and ^ythey shall know that I am the Lord, ^yywhen I shall have executed judgments in her, ^zand shall be sanctified in her. ²³For I will send into her ^apestilence, and ^ablood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; ^band they shall know that I am the Lord. ²⁴And ^cthere shall be no more ^da pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn ^eof all that are round about them, ^fthat despised them; ^band they shall know that I am the Lord God. ²⁵Thus saith the Lord God; ^gWhen I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and ^bgshall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then ^hshall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. ²⁶And ⁱthey shall dwell ^||safely therein, and shall ^kbuild houses, and ^kplant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, ^bwhen I have executed judgments ^fupon all those that ^||despise them round about them; ^band they shall know that I am the Lord their God.