Ezekiel 27
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The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

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Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
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.
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
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.

the oaks

Isaiah 2:13 And on all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and …

Zechariah 11:2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: …

the company they have made thy hatches of ivory well trodden. Rather, `thy benches have they made of ivory inlaid with box, from the isles of Chittim.' Vulgate, de insulis Italice, `from the islands of Italy,' which were always famous for {box-trees}.

company [heb] daughters
the isles

Genesis 10:4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Kittim

Numbers 24:24 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict …

Jeremiah 2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and …

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.
The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Damascus

Genesis 15:2 And Abram said, LORD God, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, …

1 Kings 11:24,25 And he gathered men to him, and became captain over a band, when …

Isaiah 7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; …

Acts 9:2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if …

Helbon The Chalybon of the Greeks and Romans, now called by the natives {Haleb}, and by us {Aleppo}, said to have been so celebrated for its wine, that the Persian kings would drink no other. It was a celebrated city of Syria, situated about

Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
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.
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
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.

all sorts of things. or, excellent things
clothes [heb] foldings

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.
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
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.

Thy riches In these beautiful and expressive figures, Tyre is represented as a ship at sea, wrecked through the mistakes of her pilots and rowers; that is, destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and afterwards by Alexander, in consequence of her rulers having pertinaciously resolved to withstand those haughty conquerors. This vast ship, laden with all kinds of valuable wares, being wrecked, all her valuables, sailors, officers, etc. went to the bottom

Ezekiel 27:7-9,12,18,19,22,24,34 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which you spread …

Ezekiel 26:12 And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your …

Proverbs 11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivers from death.

Revelation 18:11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for …

and in all. or, even with all
shall fall

Ezekiel 26:14,21 And I will make you like the top of a rock: you shall be a place …

midst [heb] heart

Ezekiel 27:26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has …

The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
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;
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:

shall cause All that were on land, seeing this gallant ship perishing with all her men and goods, are here represented as setting up a dismal cry at the heart-rending sight.

Ezekiel 27:31,32 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird them …

Ezekiel 26:17 And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and say to you, How …

Isaiah 23:1-6 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, …

Revelation 18:9-19 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived …

cast

1 Samuel 4:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh …

2 Samuel 1:2 It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out …

Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they …

Lamentations 2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, and keep silence: …

Revelation 18:19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, …

they shall wallow

Esther 4:1-4 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, …

Job 2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat down …

Job 42:6 Why I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Jeremiah 6:26 O daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself …

Jeremiah 25:34 Howl, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, …

Jonah 3:6 For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, …

Micah 1:10 Declare you it not at Gath, weep you not at all: in the house of …

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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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