Ezekiel, 27

1. The word of Yahweh was addressed to me as follows,

1. The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

2. 'Son of man, raise the lament for Tyre.

2. Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

3. Say to Tyre, "City enthroned at the gateway of the sea, agent between the peoples and the many islands, Lord Yahweh says this: Tyre, you used to say: I am a ship perfect in beauty.

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.

4. Your frontiers were far out to sea; those who built you made you perfect in beauty.

4. Thy borders [are] in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

5. Cypress from Senir they used for all your planking. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast above you.

5. They have made all thy [ship] boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

6. From oaks of Bashan they made your oars. They built you a deck of cedar inlaid with ivory from the Kittim isles.

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.

7. Embroidered linen from Egypt was used for your sail and for your flag. Purple and scarlet from the Elishah islands formed your deck-tent.

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.

8. The people of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. The sages of Tyre were aboard, serving as sailors.

8. The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise [men], O Tyrus, [that] were in thee, were thy pilots.

9. The elders and craftsmen of Gebal were there to caulk your seams. "Every sea-going ship and crew frequented you to guarantee your trade.

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.

10. Men from Persia, Lud and Put served as warriors in your army; hanging up shield and helmet in you, they displayed your splendour.

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 sons of Arvad with their army manned your walls all round, while the Gammadians manned your towers; hanging their shields all round your walls, they completed your beauty.

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 traded with you because of your abundant resources and exchanged your merchandise for silver, iron, tin and lead.

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 traded with you. For your merchandise they traded slaves and bronze artefacts.

13. Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they [were] thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

14. The people of Beth-Togarmah traded your horses, chargers, mules.

14. They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

15. The people of Dedan traded with you; many islands were your customers and paid you in ivory tusks and ebony.

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. Edom traded with you for the sake of your many manufactured goods, exchanging garnets, purple, embroideries, fine linen, coral and rubies for your goods.

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 also traded with you, bringing corn from Minnith, pannag, honey, oil and balm.

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 traded with you, for quantities of your manufactured goods and other goods of all kinds, furnishing you with wine from Helbon and wool from Zahar.

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 and Javan, from Uzal onwards, supplied you with wrought iron, cassia and reeds in exchange for your goods.

19. Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.

20. Dedan traded with you in saddle-cloths.

20. Dedan [was] thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.

21. Arabia and all the sheikhs of Kedar were your customers; they paid in lambs, rams and he-goats.

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 traded with you; they supplied you with the finest spices, precious stones and gold for your merchandise.

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, Canneh and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad traded with you.

23. Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were] thy merchants.

24. They traded rich clothes, embroidered and purple cloaks, multi-coloured materials and strong plaited cords for your markets.

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. Ships of Tarshish sailed on your business; you were full and heavily loaded far out to sea.

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. Out to the open sea your oarsmen rowed you. The east wind has wrecked you far out to sea.

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

27. Your riches, your goods, your cargo, your seamen, your sailors, your caulkers, your commercial agents, all the warriors you carry, and all the passengers who are aboard will founder far out to sea on the day of your shipwreck.

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. When they hear the cries of your sailors the coasts will tremble.

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

29. Then the oarsmen will all desert their ships. The sailors and seafaring people will stay ashore.

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. They will raise their voices for you and weep bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes;

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. they will shave their heads for you and put sackcloth round their waists. With heartfelt bitterness they will weep for you, bitterly wail.

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. Wailing, they will raise the lament for you, they will lament over you: Who is like Tyre, far out to sea?

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 you unloaded your goods to satisfy so many peoples, you enriched the kings of the earth with your excess of wealth and goods.

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. Now you have been wrecked by the waves, by the depths of the sea. Your cargo and all your passengers have foundered with you.

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 those who live in the islands will be stunned at your fate. Their kings will quake with horror, with downcast expressions.

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 of the nations will whistle at your fate. You will be an object of terror, gone for ever." '

36. The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt be] any more.