Ezequiel 27

¹ The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

² Now, thou son of man, raise up lamentations upon Tyre.

³ And say unto Tyre, O thou that dwelleth at the ports of the sea, [who art] a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus hath the Lord GOD said; O Tyre, thou hast said, I [am] of perfect beauty.

⁴ In the heart of the seas are thy border; thy builders have completed thy beauty.

⁵ They have made all thy [ship] boards of fir trees of Senir; they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

⁶ [Of] the oaks of Bashan they have made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches [of] ivory, [brought] out of the isles of Chittim.

⁷ Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was thy curtain, that it might serve to be thy sail; of blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thy pavilion.

⁸ The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy rowers; thy wise [men], O Tyre, were in thee; they were thy pilots.

⁹ The elders of Gebal and the wise [men] thereof were in thee to repair thy breaches: all the galleys of the sea with their rowers were in thee to negotiate thy business dealings.

¹⁰ Those of Persia and of Lud and of Africa were in thine army, thy men of war: they hung the shield and helmet in thee; they extolled thy beauty.

¹¹ The sons of Arvad with thine army [were] upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hung their shields upon thy walls round about; they completed thy beauty.

¹² Tarshish [was] thy market by reason of the multitude of all [thy] riches in silver, iron, tin, and lead; they traded in thy fairs.

¹³ Greece, Tubal, and Meshech, thy merchants, with the soul of men and with vessels of brass; they traded in thy fairs.

¹⁴ Those of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

¹⁵ The sons of Dedan [were] thy merchants; many isles [took] merchandise from thy hand: they brought thee [for] a present horns of ivory and peacocks.

¹⁶ Syria [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they traded in thy fairs with rubies and purple and broidered work and fine linen and coral and pearls.

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

¹⁸ Damascus [was] thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the abundance of all riches, with wine of Helbon and white wool.

¹⁹ Dan also and Greece and Mozel traded in thy fairs bright iron, cassia, and calamus.

²⁰ Dedan [was] thy merchant in precious cloth for chariots.

²¹ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, merchants of thy strength in lambs and rams and he goats: in these [they were] thy merchants.

²² The merchants of Sheba and Raamah; they [were] thy merchants: they traded in thy fairs with the chief of all spices and with all precious stones and gold.

²³ Haran and Canneh and Eden the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad [were] in thy market.

²⁴ These, thy merchants, negotiated with thee in all sorts [of things]: in blue robes and broidered work and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.

²⁵ The ships of Tarshish, thy squadrons, went forth on thy behalf: and thou wast full, and wast multiplied greatly in the midst of the seas.

²⁶ In many waters they overcame thy rowers; the east wind has broken thee in the midst of the seas.

²⁷ Thy riches, and thy markets, thy business, thy rowers, and thy pilots, those that repair thy breaches, and the agents of thy business, and all thy men of war, that [are] in thee, with all thy company which [is] in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

²⁸ The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

²⁹ And all that handle the oar, the rowers, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand upon the land

³⁰ and shall cause their voice to be heard upon thee and shall cry bitterly and shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in the ashes.

³¹ And they shall pull out their hair for thee and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of soul [and] bitter wailings.

³² And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee and lament over thee, [saying], Who [is] like Tyre, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

³³ When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou didst fill many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy contracts.

³⁴ In the time [when] thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy commerce and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.

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.

³⁶ The merchants among the peoples shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror and never [shalt be] any more.: