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30 They will lament loudly[a] over you and cry bitterly.
They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;[b]
31 they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth,
and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning.[c]
32 As they wail they will lament over you, chanting:
“Who was like Tyre, like a tower[d] in the midst of the sea?”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:30 tn Heb “make heard over you with their voice.”
  2. Ezekiel 27:30 tn Note a similar expression to “roll in the ashes” in Mic 1:10.
  3. Ezekiel 27:31 tn Heb “and they will weep concerning you with bitterness of soul, (with) bitter mourning.”
  4. Ezekiel 27:32 tn As it stands, the meaning of the Hebrew text is unclear. The translation follows the suggestion of M. Dahood, “Accadian-Ugaritic dmt in Ezekiel 27:32, ” Bib 45 (1964): 83-84. Several other explanations and emendations have been offered. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:83, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:85-86, for a list of options.