Ezekiel 27

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Ezekiel 27 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

Lamentation over Tyre

27 The word of the Lord came to me: ²“Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre, ³and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands, thus says the Lord God:

“O Tyre, you have said,
    ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
⁴Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
    your builders made perfect your beauty.
⁵They made all your planks
    of fir trees from Senir;
they took a cedar from Lebanon
    to make a mast for you.
⁶Of oaks of Bashan
    they made your oars;
they made your deck of pines
    from the coasts of Cyprus,
    inlaid with ivory.
⁷Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt
    was your sail,
    serving as your ensign;
blue and purple from the coasts of Eli′shah
    was your awning.
⁸The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad
    were your rowers;
skilled men of Zemer^[a] were in you,
    they were your pilots.
⁹The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you,
    caulking your seams;
all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you,
    to barter for your wares.

¹⁰“Persia and Lud and Put were in your army as your men of war; they hung the shield and helmet in you; they gave you splendor. ¹¹The men of Arvad and Helech^[b] were upon your walls round about, and men of Gamad were in your towers; they hung their shields upon your walls round about; they made perfect your beauty.

¹²“Tarshish trafficked with you because of your great wealth of every kind; silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your wares. ¹³Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged the persons of men and vessels of bronze for your merchandise. ¹⁴Beth-togar′mah exchanged for your wares horses, war horses, and mules. ¹⁵The men of Rhodes^[c] traded with you; many coastlands were your own special markets, they brought you in payment ivory tusks and ebony. ¹⁶Edom^[d] trafficked with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and agate. ¹⁷Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat, olives and early figs,^[e] honey, oil, and balm. ¹⁸Damascus trafficked with you for your abundant goods, because of your great wealth of every kind; wine of Helbon, and white wool, ¹⁹and wine^[f] from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were bartered for your merchandise. ²⁰Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding. ²¹Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your favored dealers in lambs, rams, and goats; in these they trafficked with you. ²²The traders of Sheba and Ra′amah traded with you; they exchanged for your wares the best of all kinds of spices, and all precious stones, and gold. ²³Haran, Canneh, Eden,^[g] Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you. ²⁴These traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of colored stuff, bound with cords and made secure; in these they traded with you.^[h] ²⁵The ships of Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise.^[i]

“So you were filled and heavily laden
    in the heart of the seas.
²⁶Your rowers have brought you out
    into the high seas.
The east wind has wrecked you
    in the heart of the seas.
²⁷Your riches, your wares, your merchandise,
    your mariners and your pilots,
your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise,
    and all your men of war who are in you,
with all your company
    that is in your midst,
sink into the heart of the seas
    on the day of your ruin.
²⁸At the sound of the cry of your pilots
    the countryside shakes,
²⁹and down from their ships
    come all that handle the oar.
The mariners and all the pilots of the sea
    stand on the shore
³⁰and wail aloud over you,
    and cry bitterly.
They cast dust on their heads
    and wallow in ashes;
³¹they make themselves bald for you,
    and gird themselves with sackcloth,
and they weep over you in bitterness of soul,
    with bitter mourning.
³²In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you,
    and lament over you:
‘Who was ever destroyed^[j] like Tyre
    in the midst of the sea?
³³When your wares came from the seas,
    you satisfied many peoples;
with your abundant wealth and merchandise
    you enriched the kings of the earth.
³⁴Now you are wrecked by the seas,
    in the depths of the waters;
your merchandise and all your crew
    have sunk with you.
³⁵All the inhabitants of the coastlands
    are appalled at you;
and their kings are horribly afraid,
    their faces are convulsed.
³⁶The merchants among the peoples hiss at you;
    you have come to a dreadful end
    and shall be no more for ever.’”

Footnotes:

Ezekiel 27:8 Compare Gen 10.18: Heb your skilled men, O Tyre
Ezekiel 27:11 Or and your army
Ezekiel 27:15 Gk: Heb Dedan
Ezekiel 27:16 Another reading is Aram
Ezekiel 27:17 Cn: Heb wheat of minnith and pannag
Ezekiel 27:19 Gk: Heb Vedan and Javan
Ezekiel 27:23 Cn: Heb Eden the traders of Sheba
Ezekiel 27:24 Cn: Heb in your market
Ezekiel 27:25 Cn: Heb your travelers your merchandise
Ezekiel 27:32 Tg Vg: Heb like silence

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