Ezequiel 27

¹ The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

² Sonne of ma, take vp a lametation for Tyrus,

³ And say to Tyre, O thou that dwelleth at the entrance of the sea, [which art] a merchantWhich serves all the world with your merchandise.of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyre, thou hast said, I [am] of perfect beauty.

⁴ Thy borders are in the middes of the sea, and thy builders haue made thee of perfit beauty.

⁵ They have made all thy [ship] planks of fir trees ofThis mountain was called Hermon but the Amorites called it Shenir, (Deu_3:9).Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

⁶ [Of] the oaks of Bashan have they made thy oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches [of] ivory, [brought] out of the isles ofWhich is taken for Greece and Italy.Chittim.

⁷ Fine linen with broydered woorke, brought from Egypt, was spread ouer thee to be thy sayle, blue silke and purple, brought from the yles of Elishah, was thy couering.

⁸ The inhabitants of Zidon, and Aruad were thy mariners, O Tyrus: thy wise men that were in thee, they were thy pilots.

⁹ The ancients of Gebal and its wise [men] were in thee thyMeaning, that they built the walls of the city, which is here meant by the ship: and of these were the builders of Solomon's temple, (1Ki_5:18).calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to exchange thy merchandise.

¹⁰ They of Persia, and of Lud & of Phut were in thine armie: thy men of warre they hanged the shielde and helmet in thee: they set foorth thy beautie.

¹¹ The men of Arvad with thy army [were] upon thy walls on all sides, and theThat is they of Cappadocia, or pygmies and dwarfs which were called because from the high towers they seemed little.Gammadims were in thy towers: they hung their shields upon thy walls on every side; they have made thy beauty perfect.

¹² They of Tarshish were thy marchantes for the multitude of all riches, for siluer, yron, tynne, and leade, which they brought to thy faires.

¹³ Of Greece, Italy and Cappadocia.Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they [were] thy merchants: they tradedBy selling slaves.in the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

¹⁴ They of the house ofWhich are taken for a people of Asia minor.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 thy hand: they brought thee [for] a presentMeaning, unicorn's horns and elephant's teeth.horns of ivory and ebony.

¹⁶ They of Aram were thy marchants for the multitude of thy wares: they occupied in thy faires with emerauds, purple, & broidred worke, and fine linen, and corall, and pearle.

¹⁷ Judah, and the land of Israel, they [were] thy merchants: they traded in thy market in wheat ofWhere the best wheat grew.Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

¹⁸ They of Damascus were thy marchants in ye multitude of thy wares, for the multitude of all riches, as in the wine of Helbon and white wooll.

¹⁹ They of Dan also and of Iauan, going to and fro, occupied in thy faires: yron woorke, cassia and calamus were among thy marchandise.

²⁰ They of Dedan were thy marchants in precious clothes for the charets.

²¹ They of Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar occupied with thee, in lambes, and rammes and goates: in these were they thy marchants.

²² The marchats of Sheba, and Raamah were thy marchantes: they occupied in thy faires with the chiefe of all spices, and with al precious stones and golde.

²³ They of Haram and Canneh and Eden, the marchants of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad were thy marchants.

²⁴ These were thy marchants in all sortes of things, in raiment of blewe silke, and of broydred woorke, and in coffers for the rich apparell, which were bound with cordes: chaines also were among thy marchandise.

²⁵ The shippes of Tarshish were thy chiefe in thy marchandise, and thou wast replenished and made very glorious in the middes of the sea.

²⁶ Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: theThat is, Nebuchadnezzar.east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.

²⁷ Thy riches and thy faires, thy marchandise, thy mariners and pilotes, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy marchandise & al thy men of warre that are in thee, and all thy multitude which is in the middes of thee, shall fall in the middes of the sea in the day of thy ruine.

²⁸ TheThat is, the cities near you, as Zidon, Arund and others.common lands shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

²⁹ And all that handle the ore, the mariners and al the pilots of the sea shal come downe from their shippes, and shall stand vpon the land,

³⁰ And shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shal cry bitterly, and shal cast dust vpon their heads, & wallow theselues in the ashes.

³¹ They shal plucke off their heare for thee & gird them with a sackecloth, and they shal weepe for thee with sorow of heart & bitter mourning.

³² And in their mourning, they shal take vp a lametation for thee, saying, What citie is like Tyrus, so destroied in the middes of the sea!

³³ When thy wares went foorth of the seas, thou filledst many people, & thou diddest enrich the Kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy marchandise.

³⁴ When thou shalt be broken by ye seas in the depths of the waters, thy marchandise and all thy multitude, which was in the mids of thee, shal fal.

³⁵ All the inhabitantes of the yles shall be astonished at thee, and all their Kings shall be sore afraide and troubled in their countenance.

³⁶ The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt be]By which is meant a long time: for it was prophesied to be destroyed but seventy years, (Isa_23:15).any more.