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A Lament for Tyre

27 The Lord’s message came to me: “You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre.[a] Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance[b] of the sea,[c] merchant to the peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfectly beautiful.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:2 tn Heb “lift up over Tyre a lament.”
  2. Ezekiel 27:3 tn Heb “entrances.” The plural noun may reflect the fact that Tyre had two main harbors.
  3. Ezekiel 27:3 sn Rome, another economic power, is described in a similar way in Rev 17:1.