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Chapter 27
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 You therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre:
3 And say to Tyre that dwells at the entry of the sea, being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus said the Lord God: O Tyre, you have said: I am of perfect beauty,
4 And situate in the heart of the sea. your neighbours, that built you, have perfected your beauty:
5 With fir trees of Sanir they have built you with all sea planks: they have taken cedars from Libanus to make you masts.
6 They have cut your oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they have made you benches of Indian ivory and cabins with things brought from the islands of Italy.
7 Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for your sail, to be spread on your mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made your covering.
8 The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were your rowers: your wise men, O Tyre, were your pilots.
9 The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of your various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were your factors.
10 The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were your soldiers in your army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in you for your ornament.
11 The men of Arad were with your army upon your walls round about: the Pygmeans also that were in your towers, hung up their quivers on your walls round about: they perfected your beauty.
12 The Carthaginians your merchants supplied your fairs with a multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead.
13 Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were your merchants: they brought to your people slaves and vessels of brass.
14 From the house of Thogorma they brought horses, and horsemen, and mules to your market.
15 The men of Dedan were your merchants: many islands were the traffic of your hand, they exchanged for your price teeth of ivory and ebony.
16 The Syrian was your merchant: by reason of the multitude of your works, they set forth precious stones, and purple, and broidered works, and fine linen, and silk, and chodchod in your market.
17 Juda and the land of Israel, they were your merchants with the best corn: they set forth balm, and honey, and oil, and rosin in your fairs.
18 The men of Damascus were your merchants in the multitude of your works, in the multitude of divers riches, in rich wine, in wool of the best colour.
19 Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in your marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in your market.
20 The men of Dedan were your merchants in tapestry for seats.
21 Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar, they were the merchants of your hand: your merchants came to you with lambs, and rants, and kids.
22 The sellers of Saba, and Reema, they were your merchants: with all the best spices, and precious stones, and gold, which they set forth in your market.
23 Haran, and Chene, and Eden were your merchants; Saba, Assur, and Chelmad sold to you.
24 They were your merchants in divers manners, with bales of blue cloth, and of embroidered work, and of precious riches, which were wrapped up and bound with cords: they had cedars also in your merchandise.
25 The ships of the sea, were your chief in your merchandise: and you were replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea.
26 your rowers have brought you into great waters: the south wind has broken you in the heart of the sea.
27 your riches, and your treasures, and your manifold furniture, your mariners, and your pilots, who kept your goods, and were chief over your people: your men of war also, that were in you, with all your multitude that is in the midst of you: shall fall in the heart of the sea in the day of your ruin.
28 your fleets shall be troubled at the sound of the cry of your pilots.
29 And all that handled the oar shall come down from their ships: the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea shall stand upon the land:
30 And they shall mourn over you with a loud voice, and shall cry bitterly: and they shall cast up dust upon their heads, and shall be sprinkled with ashes.
31 And they shall shave themselves bald for you, and shall be girded with haircloth: and they shall weep for you with bitterness of soul, with most bitter weeping.
32 And they shall take up a mournful song for you, and snail lament you: What city is like Tyre, which is become silent in the midst of the sea?
33 Which by your merchandise that went from you by sea did fill many people: which by the multitude of your riches, and of your people did enrich the kings of the earth.
34 Now you are destroyed by the sea, your riches are in the bottom of the waters, and all the multitude that was in the midst of you is fallen.
35 All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you: and all their kings being struck with the storm have changed their countenance.
36 The merchants of people have hissed at you: you are brought to nothing, and you shall never be any more.