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27 Then Yahweh gave me another message: 2 “Now you, humanity’s child, begin a funeral song about Tsor (Tyre), 3 and tell Tsor (which is on a coastal island—merchants to peoples on many other islands) that the master Yahweh says this to you:
Tsor, you’ve said, ‘My beauty has reached perfection.’
4 Your borders are surrounded by the ocean.
Your builders have perfected your beauty.[fn]
5 They made all your planks with cypress from Mt. Hermon (Senir).
They got a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
6 They made your oars from the oak trees in Bashan.
They made your decks out of cypress wood from Cyprus, and overlaid them with ivory.
7 Your sails were made from colourful linen from Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim) that served as your banner.
The colors of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah are used for the awning on your boat.
8 Those who were living in Tsidon and Arvad were your rowers.
The wise men of Tsor were within you—they were your pilots.
9 Experienced craftsmen from Geval sealed your seams.
All the ships and their sailors among you were carrying your merchandise for trade.
10 Warriors from Persia, Lydia, and Libya were in your army.
They hung their shields and helmets within you.
They displayed your splendour.
11 The men of Arvad and Helek in your army were on your walls surrounding you,
and the people from Gammad were in your towers.
They hung up their shields on your walls all around you.
They completed your beauty.
12 “Tarshish was a trading partner with you because of your abundant wealth of goods. They traded silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares. 13 Yavan, Tubal, and Meshech traded slaves as well as bronze items for your merchandise. 14 Beyt-Togarmah provided horses, stallions, and mules in exchange for your products. 15 The men of Dedan (Rhodes Island) were your traders on many coasts. You sent the merchandise and they sent back ivory tusks and ebony wood as payment. 16 Syria (Heb. Aram) was a dealer in your many products—they provided emeralds, purple dye, coloured cloth, fine fabric, pearls, and rubies for your merchandise. 17 Yehudah and Yisrael were trading with you. They provided wheat from Minnit, cakes, honey, oil, and balsam for your merchandise. 18 Damascus was a trader of all your products, of all your enormous wealth, and of the wine from Helbon and the wool from Zahar.[fn] 19 Dan and Yavan from Uzal provided you with merchandise of wrought iron, cinnamon, and fragrant calamus seeds which became merchandise for you. 20 Dedan was your dealer in woven saddle blankets. 21 Arabia and all the leaders of Kedar were traders with you—they provided you with lambs, rams and goats. 22 Traders from Sheba and Ramah came to sell you the best of every spice and all kinds of precious gems—they traded gold for your goods. 23 Haran, Kanneh, and Eden were traders with you, along with Sheba, Ashur, and Kilmad. 24 Those were your traders in fancy robes of violet cloths with woven colours, and in blankets of multicoloured, embroidered, and well-woven cloth in your marketplaces. 25 The ships of Tarshish were the transporters of your merchandise.
So you were filled up—heavily laden with cargo there in the heart of the seas.
26 Your rowers have brought you into vast seas.
The east wind has wrecked you in the middle of them.
27 Your wealth, merchandise, and trade goods,
your sailors, pilots, and ship-builders,
your traders of merchandise and all the men of war who are in you, and all your crew—
they will sink into the depths of the sea at the time of your destruction.
28 The surroundings will shake
when they hear your pilot’s cry of distress.
29 All the oarsmen will come down off their ships.
Mariners and all the pilots on the sea will stand on the land,
30 then they’ll raise their voices towards you and will wail bitterly.
They’ll throw dust up onto their heads. They’ll roll around to get covered in ashes.
31 They’ll shave their heads bald for you and dress in rough sackcloth,[fn]
and they’ll weep bitterly over you and they will cry out with loud moans.
32 They will wail loudly for you and sing funeral songs about you.
Who is like the city of Tsor, which has now been brought to silence in the middle of the sea?
33 When your merchandise went ashore from the sea, it pleased many peoples.
You enriched kings across the world with your great wealth and merchandise.
34 But when you were shattered by the seas, by deep waters,
your merchandise and all your crew sank.
35 All the inhabitants of the coastal kingdoms were appalled at you,
and their kings shuddered in horror—their faces trembled.
36 The merchants of the people hiss at you.
You’ve become a horror, and you won’t exist anymore.”
27:3 OSHB variant note: ה/ישבתי: (x-qere) ’הַ/יֹּשֶׁ֨בֶת֙’: lemma_d/3427 n_1.2.0 morph_HTd/Vqrfsa id_26qJg הַ/יֹּשֶׁ֨בֶת֙
27:6 OSHB variant note: כתים: (x-qere) ’כִּתִּיִּֽים’: lemma_3794 n_0 morph_HNgmpa id_26NiH כִּתִּיִּֽים
27:15 OSHB variant note: ו/הובנים: (x-qere) ’וְ/הָבְנִ֔ים’: lemma_c/1894 n_0.1 morph_HC/Ncmpa id_26R73 וְ/הָבְנִ֔ים
27:27 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
27:29 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
Ezekiel 27
Throughout Bible times, the island city of Tyre was renowned for its extensive and prosperous international trade. Located immediately northwest of Galilee, Tyre was one of the most important cities of Phoenicia (see “Phoenicia and Tyre” map) and had ready access to the Mediterranean Sea as well as to the land routes leading to Egypt, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia. The city was established before the Great Pyramids of Egypt and no doubt took part in the Phoenician colonization of distant lands throughout the Mediterranean Sea, including Spain, Sardinia, and Carthage. Many of these colonies continued to trade with Tyre even after they established their independence from the Phoenicians. Tyre’s extensive trade led to immense wealth and international influence, but according to the prophet Ezekiel, this also led the city to be filled with arrogance and pride. Ezekiel 27 mentions all the locations shown on this map as providing goods to Tyre, but Ezekiel artistically foretells of Tyre’s coming destruction by portraying it as a heavily laden merchant ship that suffers a disastrous wreck after being caught in a storm on the high seas.
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