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30 and they will lament[a] over you with their voice,
    and they will cry out[b] bitterly,
and they will throw[c] dust on their heads,
    and they will roll[d] in the dust.
31 They will shave themselves bald for your sake,[e]
    and they will dress[f] themselves in sackcloth,
and they will weep[g] over you with a bitterness of soul[h]
    and with bitter wailing.
32 And they will raise[i] over you with their wailing a lament,
    and they will chant[j] a lament over you:
‘Who is like Tyre,
    like this destruction in the midst of the sea?’

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:30 Hebrew “lamented”
  2. Ezekiel 27:30 Hebrew “cried out”
  3. Ezekiel 27:30 Hebrew “threw”
  4. Ezekiel 27:30 Hebrew “rolled”
  5. Ezekiel 27:31 Literally “And they made bald for you with baldness”
  6. Ezekiel 27:31 Hebrew “dressed”
  7. Ezekiel 27:31 Hebrew “wept”
  8. Ezekiel 27:31 Or “of their inner self”
  9. Ezekiel 27:32 Hebrew “raised”
  10. Ezekiel 27:32 Hebrew “chanted”

30 They will raise their voice
    and cry bitterly over you;
they will sprinkle dust(A) on their heads
    and roll(B) in ashes.(C)
31 They will shave their heads(D) because of you
    and will put on sackcloth.
They will weep(E) over you with anguish of soul
    and with bitter mourning.(F)
32 As they wail and mourn over you,
    they will take up a lament(G) concerning you:
“Who was ever silenced like Tyre,
    surrounded by the sea?(H)

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