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Ezekiel 27

Ezekiel sings a lament over Tyre as a magnificent merchant ship assembled from the best materials and filled with goods from many nations. The long trading network displays Tyre’s wealth and beauty, but the ship is wrecked in the heart of the seas and merchants, sailors, and kings mourn the loss.

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Verses 1–11Tyre is pictured as a beautifully built and richly manned merchant ship Verses 12–25The nations and their goods fill Tyre’s markets and make her glorious in the seas Verses 26–36The great trading ship is wrecked, and merchants and seafarers lament Tyre’s fall

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1The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,2Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for…3And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at…4Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy…5They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees…6Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars;…7Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which…8The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy…9The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were…10They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were…11The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy…12Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of…13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded…14They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs…15The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were…16Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of…17Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants:…18Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares…19Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in…20Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.21Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with…22The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants:…23Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur,…24These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in…25The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy…26Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east…27Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and…28The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry…29And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all…30And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee,…31And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and…32And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation…33When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou…34In the time when thou shalt be broken by the…35All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at…36The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou…