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;
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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.
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Thy borders are in the midst of
the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
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They have made all thy ship boards
of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make
masts for thee.
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Of the oaks of Bashan have they
made thine oars; the company of the Ash'urites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of
Chittim.
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Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt
was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple
from the isles of Eli'shah was that which covered thee.
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The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were
thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in
thee, were thy pilots.
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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.
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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.
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The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gam'madim were in
thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about;
they have made thy beauty perfect.
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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.
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Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and
vessels of brass in thy market.
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They of the house of Togar'mah traded in
thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Dedan was thy merchant in precious
clothes for chariots.
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Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar,
they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
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The merchants of Sheba and Ra'amah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of
all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
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Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the
merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy
merchants.
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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.
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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.
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Thy rowers have brought thee into great
waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the
seas.
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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.
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The suburbs shall shake at the sound of
the cry of thy pilots.
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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;
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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:
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The merchants among the people shall hiss
at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more. Rev. 18.11-19
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