27:1 And the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
27:2 And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation against Sor;
27:3 and thou shalt say to Sor that dwells at the entrance of the sea, to
the mart of the nations coming from many islands, Thus saith the Lord to Sor;
Thou hast said, I have clothed myself with my beauty.
27:4 In the heart of the sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim.
27:5 Cedar in Senir was employed for thee in building: boards of cypress
timber were taken out of Libanus, and wood to make thee masts of fir.
27:6 They made thine oars [of wood] out of the land of Basan; thy sacred
utensils they made of ivory, thy shady houses of wood from the isles of
Chetiim.
27:7 Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied the couch, to put honour
upon thee, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the isles of Elisai;
and they became thy coverings.
27:8 And thy princes were the dwellers in Sidon, and the Aradians were thy
rowers: thy wise men, O Sor, who were in thee, these were thy pilots.
27:9 The elders of the Biblians, and their wise men, who were in thee, these
helped thy counsel: and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for
thee to the utmost west.
27:10 Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army: thy warriors hung
in thee shields and helmets; these gave [thee] thy glory.
27:11 The sons of the Aradians and thine army were upon the walls; there
were guards in thy towers: they hung their quivers on thy battlements round
about; these completed thy beauty.
27:12 The Carthaginians were thy merchants because of the abundance of all
thy strength; they furnished thy market with silver, and gold, and iron, and
tin, and lead.
27:13 Greece, both the whole [world], and the adjacent coasts, these traded
with thee in the persons of men, and they gave [as] thy merchandise vessels
of brass.
27:14 Out of the house of Thogarma horses and horsemen furnished the market.
27:15 The sons of the Rhodians were thy merchants; from the islands they
multiplied thy merchandise, [even] elephants' teeth: and to them that came
in thou didst return thy prices,
27:16 [even] men [as] thy merchandise, from the multitude of thy trading
[population], myrrh and embroidered works from Tharsis: Ramoth also and
Chorchor furnished thy market.
27:17 Juda and the children of Israel, these were thy merchants; in the sale
of corn and ointments and cassia: and they gave the best honey, and oil, and
resin, to thy trading [population].
27:18 [The people of] Damascus were thy merchants by reason of the abundance
of all thy power; wine out of Chelbon, and wool from Miletus; and they
brought wine into thy market.
27:19 Out of Asel [came] wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels
among thy trading [population].
27:20 [The people of] Daedan were thy merchants, with choice cattle for
chariots.
27:21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, these were thy traders with thee,
[bringing] camels, and lambs, and rams, in which they trade with thee.
27:22 The merchants of Sabba and Ramma, these were thy merchants, with
choice spices, and precious stones: and they brought gold to thy market.
27:23 Charra, and Chanaa, these were thy merchants: Assur, and Charman, were
thy merchants:
27:24 bringing [for] merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords,
and cypress wood.
27:25 Ships were thy merchants, in abundance, with thy trading [population]:
and thou wast filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea.
27:26 The rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind has
broken thee in the heart of the sea.
27:27 Thy forces, and thy gain, and that of thy traders, and thy rowers, and
thy pilots, and thy counselors, and they that traffic with thee, and all thy
warriors that are in thee: and all thy company in the midst of thee shall
perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of thy fall.
27:28 At the cry of thy voice thy pilots shall be greatly terrified.
27:29 And all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships,
and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land.
27:30 And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and
put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.
27:31
27:32 And their sons shall take up a [lament] for thee, even a lamentation
for Sor, [saying],
27:33 How large a reward hast thou gained from the sea? thou hast filled
nations out of thine abundance; and out of thy mixed merchandise thou hast
enriched all the kings of the earth.
27:34 Now art thou broken in the sea, thy traders are in the deep water, and
all thy company in the midst of thee: all thy rowers have fallen.
27:35 All the dwellers in the islands have mourned over thee, and their
kings have been utterly amazed, and their countenance has wept.
27:36 Merchants from the nations have hissed at thee; thou art utterly
destroyed, and shalt not be any more for ever. |
27:1 The word of the LORD came again unto
me, saying,
27:2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
27:3 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.
27:4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected
thy beauty.
27:5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have
taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
27:6 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.
27:7 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.
27:8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O
Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
27:9 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.
27:10 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.
27:11 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.
27:12 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.
27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the
persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
27:14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and
horsemen and mules.
27:15 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.
27:16 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.
27:17 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.
27:18 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.
27:19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright
iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
27:20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
27:21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in
lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
27:22 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.
27:23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and
Chilmad, were thy merchants.
27:24 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.
27:25 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.
27:26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath
broken thee in the midst of the seas.
27:27 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.
27:28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
27:29 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;
27:30 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:
27:31 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.
27:32 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?
27:33 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.
27:34 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.
27:35 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.
27:36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a
terror, and never shalt be any more. |