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