Ezekiel27

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(Eze 27:1) The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
(Eze 27:2) Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
(Eze 27:3) 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.
(Eze 27:4) Thy borders {are} in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
(Eze 27:5) They have made all thy {ship} boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
(Eze 27:6) {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.
(Eze 27:7) 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.
(Eze 27:8) The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise {men}, O Tyrus, {that} were in thee, were thy pilots.
(Eze 27:9) 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.
(Eze 27:10) 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.
(Eze 27:11) 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.
(Eze 27:12) 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.
(Eze 27:13) Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they {were} thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
(Eze 27:14) They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
(Eze 27:15) 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.
(Eze 27:16) 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.
(Eze 27:17) 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.
(Eze 27:18) 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.
(Eze 27:19) Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
(Eze 27:20) Dedan {was} thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
(Eze 27:21) Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these {were they} thy merchants.
(Eze 27:22) 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.
(Eze 27:23) Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, {and} Chilmad, {were} thy merchants.
(Eze 27:24) 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.
(Eze 27:25) 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.
(Eze 27:26) Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
(Eze 27:27) 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.
(Eze 27:28) The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
(Eze 27:29) 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;
(Eze 27:30) 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:
(Eze 27:31) 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.
(Eze 27:32) 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?
(Eze 27:33) 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.
(Eze 27:34) 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.
(Eze 27:35) 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.
(Eze 27:36) The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never {shalt be} any more. Previous chapter, Next chapter, Previous Book, Next Book