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Ezekiel 27
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Lamentation over Tyre

27The word of the LORD came to me:H1697H3068H559 2Now you, mortal, raise a lamentation over Tyre,H1121H120H5375H7015H6865 3and say to Tyre, which sits at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands, Thus says the Lord GOD: O Tyre, you have said, "I am perfect in beauty."H559H6865H3427H3997H3220H7402H5971H7227H339H559H136H3069H6865H559H3632H3308 4Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders made perfect your beauty.H1366H3820H3220H1129H3634H3308 5They made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.H1129H3871H1265H8149H3947H730H3844H6213H8650 6From oaks of Bashan they made your oars; they made your deck of pines from the coasts of Cyprus, inlaid with ivory.H437H1316H6213H4880H1323H839H6213H7175H8127H339H3794 7Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your ensign; blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your awning.H8336H7553H4714H4666H5251H8504H713H339H473H4374 8The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; skilled men of Zemer were within you, they were your pilots.H3427H6721H719H7751H2450H6865H2259 9The elders of Gebal and its artisans were within you, caulking your seams; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were within you, to barter for your wares.H2205H1380H2450H919H2388H591H3220H4419H6148H4627 10Paras and Lud and Put were in your army, your mighty warriors; they hung shield and helmet in you; they gave you splendor.H6539H3865H6316H2428H582H4421H8518H4043H3553H5414H1926 11Men of Arvad and Helech were on your walls all around; men of Gamad were at your towers. They hung their quivers all around your walls; they made perfect your beauty.H1121H719H2428H2346H5439H1575H4026H8518H7982H2346H5439H3634H3308H3634 12Tarshish did business with you out of the abundance of your great wealth; silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your wares.H8659H5503H7230H1952H3701H1270H913H5777H5414H5801 13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.H3120H8422H4902H7402H5414H5315H120H3627H5178H4627 14Beth-togarmah exchanged for your wares horses, war horses, and mules.H1004H8425H5414H5801H5483H6571H6505 15The Rhodians traded with you; many coastlands were your own special markets; they brought you in payment ivory tusks and ebony.H1121H1719H7402H7227H339H5506H3027H7725H814H7161H8127H1894 16Edom did business with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies.H758H5503H7230H4639H5414H5801H5306H713H7553H948H7215H3539 17Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat from Minneth, millet, honey, oil, and balm.H3063H776H3478H7402H5414H4627H2406H4511H6436H1706H8081H6875 18Damascus traded with you for your abundant goods—because of your great wealth of every kind—wine of Helbon, and white wool.H1834H5503H7230H4639H7230H1952H3196H2463H6713H6785 19Vedan and Javan from Uzal entered into trade for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were bartered for your merchandise.H2051H1835H3120H235H5414H5801H6219H1270H6916H7070H4627 20Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.H1719H7402H2667H899H7396 21Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your favored dealers in lambs, rams, and goats; in these they did business with you.H6152H5387H6938H5503H3027H3733H352H6260H5503 22The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; they exchanged for your wares the best of all kinds of spices, and all precious stones, and gold.H7402H7614H7484H7402H5414H5801H7218H1314H3368H68H2091 23Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.H2771H3656H5729H7402H7614H804H3638H7402 24These traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of colored material, bound with cords and made secure; in these they traded with you.H7402H4360H8504H1545H7553H1595H1264H2280H2256H729H4819 25The ships of Tarshish traveled for you in your trade. So you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas.H591H8659H7788H4627H4390H3966H3513H3820H3220 26Your rowers have brought you into the high seas. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.H7751H935H7227H4325H6921H7307H7665H3820H3220 27Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise, and all your warriors within you, with all the company that is with you, sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your ruin.H1952H5801H4627H4419H2259H919H2388H6148H4627H582H4421H6951H8432H5307H3820H3220H3117H4658 28At the sound of the cry of your pilots the countryside shakes,H4054H7493H6963H2201H2259 29and down from their ships come all that handle the oar. The mariners and all the pilots of the sea stand on the shoreH8610H4880H4419H2259H3220H3381H591H5975H776 30and wail aloud over you, and cry bitterly. They throw dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;H6963H8085H2199H4751H5927H6083H7218H6428H665 31they make themselves bald for you, and put on sackcloth, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.H7144H7139H2296H8242H1058H4751H5315H4751H4553 32In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you, and lament over you: "Who was ever destroyed like Tyre in the midst of the sea?H5204H5375H7015H6969H6865H1822H8432H3220 33When your wares came from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with your abundant wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.H5801H3318H3220H7646H7227H5971H6238H4428H776H7230H1952H4627 34Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your crew have sunk with you.H6256H7665H3220H4615H4325H4627H6951H8432H5307 35All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled at you; and their kings are horribly afraid, their faces are convulsed.H3427H339H8074H4428H8178H8175H7481H6440 36The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever."H5503H5971H8319H1091H5704H5769


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