Chapter 27.
The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, Now thou son of man, take up a
lamentation for Tyrus, 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.
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas.
Thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
They have made all thy shipboards of fir trees, of cedar.
They have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars.
The company of the Asherites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles
of Kittim.
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be
thy sail.
Blue and purple from the isles of Elisha was that which covered thee.
The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvid were thy mariners, thy wise men, O Tyrus,
that were in thee were thy pilots, the ancients of Gebel, and the wise men
thereof were in thee thy caulkers.
All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy thy
merchandise.
They of Persia, and of Lod, and of Phut, were in thine army.
Thy men of war, they hanged the shield and helmet in thee, they set forth thy
comeliness.
The men of Arvid with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gamidons
were in thy towers.
They hanged their shields upon thy walls round about.
They have made thy beauty perfect.
Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches,
with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fares.
Javan, Tubal, and Meshach, they were thy merchants.
They traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fares with horses, and horsemen,
and mules.
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.
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making.
They occupied in thy fares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, and fine linen,
and coral, and agate.
Judah and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants.
They traded in thy market wheat of minneth, and panning, and honey,
and oil, and balm.
Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the
multitude of all riches in the wine of helban, and white wool.
Dan also, and Javan, going to and fro occupied in thy fares.
Bright iron, casha, and calamus were in thy market.
Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs,
and rams, and goats.
In these were they thy merchants.
The merchants of Sheba and Rahema, they were thy merchants.
They occupied in thy fares with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones
in gold.
Haran, and Cana, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asher, and Kilman, were thy
merchants.
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.
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.
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters.
The east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
Thy riches, and thy fares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots,
thy caulkers, 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.
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots, 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, 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, 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.
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?
When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou fillest many people.
Thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of
thy merchandise.
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.
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.
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee.
Thou shalt be a terror, and never shall be any more.