geneva - Ezekiel:25-27

geneva@Ezekiel:25:1 @ The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:25:2 @ Sonne of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophecie against them,

geneva@Ezekiel:25:3 @ And say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, (note:)Because you rejoiced when the enemy destroyed my city and temple.(:note) Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;

geneva@Ezekiel:25:4 @ Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the (note:)That is, to the Babylonians.(:note) men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their They will chase you away, and take your gorgeous houses to dwell in. palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.

geneva@Ezekiel:25:5 @ And I will make (note:)Called also Philadelphin, which was the chief city of the Ammonites and full of conveniences, (2Sa_12:27).(:note) Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:25:6 @ For thus saith the Lord God, Because thou hast clapped the hands, and stamped with the feete, and reioyced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel,

geneva@Ezekiel:25:7 @ Beholde, therefore I will stretche out mine hand vpon thee, and will deliuer thee to be spoyled of the heathen, and I will roote thee out from the people, and I will cause thee to be destroyed out of the countreys, and I will destroy thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

geneva@Ezekiel:25:8 @ Thus saith the Lord God, Because that Moab and Seir doe say, Beholde, the house of Iudah is like vnto all the heathen,

geneva@Ezekiel:25:9 @ Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, (note:)So that no power or strength should be able to resist the Babylonians.(:note) from his cities [which are] on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,

geneva@Ezekiel:25:10 @ I will call the men of the East against the Ammonites, and will giue them in possession, so that the Ammonites shal no more be remembred among the nations,

geneva@Ezekiel:25:11 @ And I will execute iudgements vpon Moab, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord.

geneva@Ezekiel:25:12 @ Thus sayth the Lorde God, Because that Edom hath done euill by taking vengeance vpon the house of Iudah, and hath committed great offence, and reuenged himselfe vpon them,

geneva@Ezekiel:25:13 @ Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, I will also stretch out mine hand vpon Edom, and destroy man and beast out of it, and I will make it desolate from Teman, and they of Dedan shall fall by the sworde.

geneva@Ezekiel:25:14 @ And I will execute my vengeance vpon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall doe in Edom according to mine anger, and according to mine indignation, & they shall know my vengeance, sayth the Lord God.

geneva@Ezekiel:25:15 @ Thus sayth the Lord God, Because the Philistims haue executed vengeance, and reuenged themselues with a despitefull heart, to destroy it for the olde hatred,

geneva@Ezekiel:25:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the (note:)Which were certain garrisons of Philistines by which they often molested the Jews, of the Cherethims David also had a guard, (2Sa_8:18).(:note) Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

geneva@Ezekiel:25:17 @ And I will execute great vengeance vpon them with rebukes of mine indignation, and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde, when I shall lay my vengeance vpon them.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:1 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Either of the captivity of Jeconiah or of the reign of Zedekiah.(:note) eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:26:2 @ Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken [that was] the (note:)That is, the famous city Jerusalem to which all people resorted.(:note) gates of the people: she is turned to me: I shall be My riches and fame will increase: thus the wicked rejoice at their fall by whom they may have any profit or advantage. replenished, [now] she is laid waste:

geneva@Ezekiel:26:3 @ Therefore thus sayth the Lorde God, Beholde, I come against thee, O Tyrus, and I will bring vp many nations against thee, as the sea mounteth vp with his waues.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:4 @ And they shall destroy the walles of Tyrus and breake downe her towres: I will also scrape her dust from her, & make her like the top of a rocke.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:5 @ Thou shalt be for the spreading of nettes in the middes of the sea: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God, and it shalbe a spoile to ye nations.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:6 @ And her (note:)The towns that belonged to her.(:note) daughters who [are] in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:7 @ For thus sayth the Lord God, Behold, I will bring vpon Tyrus Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel, a King of Kings from the North, with horses and with charets, and with horsemen, with a multitude and much people.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:8 @ He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the fielde, and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift vp the buckler against thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:9 @ He shall set engins of warre before him against thy walles, and with his weapons breake downe thy towres.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:10 @ The dust of his horses shall couer thee, for their multitude: thy walles shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheeles, and of the charets, when he shall enter into thy gates as into the entrie of a citie that is broken downe.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:11 @ With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong (note:)For Tyre was built by art and by labour of men was won out of the sea. Some refer this to the image of the noble men which they had erected for their glory and renown.(:note) garrisons shall go down to the ground.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:12 @ And they shall robbe thy riches, and spoyle thy marchandise, and they shall breake downe thy walles, and destroy thy pleasant houses, and they shall cast thy stones and thy timber and thy dust into the middes of the water.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:13 @ Thus will I cause the sounde of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thine harpes shall be no more heard.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:14 @ And I will make thee like the top of a rock: (note:)I will make you so bare that you will have nothing to cover you.(:note) thou shalt be [a place] to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:15 @ Thus sayth the Lorde God to Tyrus, Shall not the yles tremble at the sounde of thy fall? and at the crie of the wounded, when they shall be slaine and murthered in the middes of thee?

geneva@Ezekiel:26:16 @ Then all the princes of the (note:)The governors and rulers of other countries that dwell by the sea: by which he signifies that her destruction would be so horrible that all the world would hear of it and be afraid.(:note) sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their embroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at [every] moment, and be astonished at thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:17 @ And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, [that wast] inhabited (note:)Meaning, merchants who by their traffic enriched her wonderfully and increased her power.(:note) by seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who cause their terror [to be] on all that dwelt in it!

geneva@Ezekiel:26:18 @ Nowe shall the yles be astonished in the day of thy fall: yea, the yles that are in the sea, shall be troubled at thy departure.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:19 @ For thus saith the Lord God, When I shall make thee a desolate citie, like ye cities that are not inhabited, and when I shall bring the deepe vpon thee, and great waters shall couer thee,

geneva@Ezekiel:26:20 @ When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people (note:)Who were dead long ago.(:note) of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the Meaning in Judea when it will be restored. living;

geneva@Ezekiel:26:21 @ I will bring thee to nothing, & thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou neuer be found againe, sayth the Lord God.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:1 @ The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:27:2 @ Sonne of ma, take vp a lametation for Tyrus,

geneva@Ezekiel:27:3 @ And say to Tyre, O thou that dwelleth at the entrance of the sea, [which art] a merchant (note:)Which serves all the world with your merchandise.(:note) of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyre, thou hast said, I [am] of perfect beauty.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:4 @ Thy borders are in the middes of the sea, and thy builders haue made thee of perfit beauty.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:5 @ They have made all thy [ship] planks of fir trees of (note:)This mountain was called Hermon but the Amorites called it Shenir, (Deu_3:9).(:note) Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:6 @ [Of] the oaks of Bashan have they made thy oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches [of] ivory, [brought] out of the isles of (note:)Which is taken for Greece and Italy.(:note) Chittim.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:7 @ Fine linen with broydered woorke, brought from Egypt, was spread ouer thee to be thy sayle, blue silke and purple, brought from the yles of Elishah, was thy couering.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:8 @ The inhabitants of Zidon, and Aruad were thy mariners, O Tyrus: thy wise men that were in thee, they were thy pilots.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:9 @ The ancients of Gebal and its wise [men] were in thee thy (note:)Meaning, that they built the walls of the city, which is here meant by the ship: and of these were the builders of Solomon's temple, (1Ki_5:18).(:note) calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to exchange thy merchandise.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:10 @ They of Persia, and of Lud & of Phut were in thine armie: thy men of warre they hanged the shielde and helmet in thee: they set foorth thy beautie.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:11 @ The men of Arvad with thy army [were] upon thy walls on all sides, and the (note:)That is they of Cappadocia, or pygmies and dwarfs which were called because from the high towers they seemed little.(:note) Gammadims were in thy towers: they hung their shields upon thy walls on every side; they have made thy beauty perfect.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:12 @ They of Tarshish were thy marchantes for the multitude of all riches, for siluer, yron, tynne, and leade, which they brought to thy faires.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:13 @

geneva@Ezekiel:27:14 @ They of the house of (note:)Which are taken for a people of Asia minor.(:note) Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:15 @ The men of Dedan [were] thy merchants; many isles [were] the merchandise of thy hand: they brought thee [for] a present (note:)Meaning, unicorn's horns and elephant's teeth.(:note) horns of ivory and ebony.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:16 @ They of Aram were thy marchants for the multitude of thy wares: they occupied in thy faires with emerauds, purple, & broidred worke, and fine linen, and corall, and pearle.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:17 @ Judah, and the land of Israel, they [were] thy merchants: they traded in thy market in wheat of (note:)Where the best wheat grew.(:note) Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:18 @ They of Damascus were thy marchants in ye multitude of thy wares, for the multitude of all riches, as in the wine of Helbon and white wooll.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:19 @ They of Dan also and of Iauan, going to and fro, occupied in thy faires: yron woorke, cassia and calamus were among thy marchandise.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:20 @ They of Dedan were thy marchants in precious clothes for the charets.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:21 @ They of Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar occupied with thee, in lambes, and rammes and goates: in these were they thy marchants.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:22 @ The marchats of Sheba, and Raamah were thy marchantes: they occupied in thy faires with the chiefe of all spices, and with al precious stones and golde.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:23 @ They of Haram and Canneh and Eden, the marchants of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad were thy marchants.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:24 @ These were thy marchants in all sortes of things, in raiment of blewe silke, and of broydred woorke, and in coffers for the rich apparell, which were bound with cordes: chaines also were among thy marchandise.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:25 @ The shippes of Tarshish were thy chiefe in thy marchandise, and thou wast replenished and made very glorious in the middes of the sea.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:26 @ Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the (note:)That is, Nebuchadnezzar.(:note) east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:27 @ Thy riches and thy faires, thy marchandise, thy mariners and pilotes, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy marchandise & al thy men of warre that are in thee, and all thy multitude which is in the middes of thee, shall fall in the middes of the sea in the day of thy ruine.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:28 @ The (note:)That is, the cities near you, as Zidon, Arund and others.(:note) common lands shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:29 @ And all that handle the ore, the mariners and al the pilots of the sea shal come downe from their shippes, and shall stand vpon the land,

geneva@Ezekiel:27:30 @ And shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shal cry bitterly, and shal cast dust vpon their heads, & wallow theselues in the ashes.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:31 @ They shal plucke off their heare for thee & gird them with a sackecloth, and they shal weepe for thee with sorow of heart & bitter mourning.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:32 @ And in their mourning, they shal take vp a lametation for thee, saying, What citie is like Tyrus, so destroied in the middes of the sea!

geneva@Ezekiel:27:33 @ When thy wares went foorth of the seas, thou filledst many people, & thou diddest enrich the Kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy marchandise.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:34 @ When thou shalt be broken by ye seas in the depths of the waters, thy marchandise and all thy multitude, which was in the mids of thee, shal fal.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:35 @ All the inhabitantes of the yles shall be astonished at thee, and all their Kings shall be sore afraide and troubled in their countenance.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:36 @ The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt be] (note:)By which is meant a long time: for it was prophesied to be destroyed but seventy years, (Isa_23:15).(:note) any more.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:1 @ The woorde of the Lorde came againe vnto me, saying,