The word
of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
02 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation
for Tyrus;
03 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.
04 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy
builders have perfected thy beauty.
05 They have made all thy ship boards of fir
trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from
Lebanon to make masts for thee.
06 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.
07 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.
08 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy
mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in
thee, were thy pilots.
09 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.
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.
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.
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.
13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy
merchants: they traded the persons of men and
vessels of brass in thy market.
14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy
fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
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.
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.
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.
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.
19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied
in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus,
were in thy market.
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20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for
chariots.
21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they
occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats:
in these were they thy merchants.
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.
23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of
Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
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.
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.
26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great
waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the
midst of the seas.
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.
28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the
cry of thy pilots.
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;
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:
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at
thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be
any more.
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