Ezekiel 27

About Ezekiel Ezekiel, a prophet among the exiles, speaks of judgment, God's glory, and the renewal of his people.

The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,SelectedEzekiel 27:1Ask

Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;SelectedEzekiel 27:2Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:3Ask

Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.SelectedEzekiel 27:4Ask

They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.SelectedEzekiel 27:5Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:6Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:7Ask

The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.SelectedEzekiel 27:8Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:9Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:10Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:11Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:12Ask

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.SelectedEzekiel 27:13Ask

They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.SelectedEzekiel 27:14Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:15Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:16Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:17Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:18Ask

Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.SelectedEzekiel 27:19Ask

Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.SelectedEzekiel 27:20Ask

Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.SelectedEzekiel 27:21Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:22Ask

Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.SelectedEzekiel 27:23Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:24Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:25Ask

Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.SelectedEzekiel 27:26Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:27Ask

The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.SelectedEzekiel 27:28Ask

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;SelectedEzekiel 27:29Ask

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:SelectedEzekiel 27:30Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:31Ask

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?SelectedEzekiel 27:32Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:33Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:34Ask

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.SelectedEzekiel 27:35Ask

The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.SelectedEzekiel 27:36Ask

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