Ezekiel:27-28
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The word of the LORD came again unto me ,
saying ,
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Now ,
thou son of man ,
take up a lamentation for Tyrus ;
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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 .
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Thy borders are in the midst of the seas ,
thy builders have perfected thy beauty .
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They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir :
they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee .
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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 .
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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 .
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The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners :
thy wise men ,
O Tyrus ,
that were in thee ,
were thy pilots .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Javan ,
Tubal ,
and Meshech ,
they were thy merchants :
they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market .
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They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs :
bright iron ,
cassia ,
and calamus ,
were in thy market .
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Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots .
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Arabia ,
and all the princes of Kedar ,
they occupied with thee in lambs ,
and rams ,
and goats :
in these were they thy merchants .
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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 .
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Haran ,
and Canneh ,
and Eden ,
the merchants of Sheba ,
Asshur ,
and Chilmad ,
were thy merchants .
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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 .
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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 .
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Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters :
the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas .
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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 .
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The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots .
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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 ;
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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 :
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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 .
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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 ?
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee ;
thou shalt be a terror ,
and never shalt be any more .
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The word of the LORD came again unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
say unto the prince of Tyrus ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Because thine heart is lifted up ,
and thou hast said ,
I am a God ,
I sit in the seat of God ,
in the midst of the seas ;
yet thou art a man ,
and not God ,
though thou set thine heart as the heart of God :
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Behold ,
thou art wiser than Daniel ;
there is no secret that they can hide from thee :
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With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches ,
and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures :
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By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches ,
and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches :
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God ;
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Behold ,
therefore I will bring strangers upon thee ,
the terrible of the nations :
and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom ,
and they shall defile thy brightness .
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They shall bring thee down to the pit ,
and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas .
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Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee ,
I am God ?
but thou shalt be a man ,
and no God ,
in the hand of him that slayeth thee .
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Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers :
for I have spoken it ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus ,
and say unto him ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Thou sealest up the sum ,
full of wisdom ,
and perfect in beauty .
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Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God ;
every precious stone was thy covering ,
the sardius ,
topaz ,
and the diamond ,
the beryl ,
the onyx ,
and the jasper ,
the sapphire ,
the emerald ,
and the carbuncle ,
and gold :
the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created .
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Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth ;
and I have set thee so :
thou wast upon the holy mountain of God ;
thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire .
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Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created ,
till iniquity was found in thee .
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By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence ,
and thou hast sinned :
therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God :
and I will destroy thee ,
O covering cherub ,
from the midst of the stones of fire .
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Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty ,
thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness :
I will cast thee to the ground ,
I will lay thee before kings ,
that they may behold thee .
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Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities ,
by the iniquity of thy traffick ;
therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee ,
it shall devour thee ,
and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee .
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All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee :
thou shalt be a terror ,
and never shalt thou be any more .
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
set thy face against Zidon ,
and prophesy against it ,
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And say ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Behold ,
I am against thee ,
O Zidon ;
and I will be glorified in the midst of thee :
and they shall know that I am the LORD ,
when I shall have executed judgments in her ,
and shall be sanctified in her .
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For I will send into her pestilence ,
and blood into her streets ;
and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side ;
and they shall know that I am the LORD .
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And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel ,
nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them ,
that despised them ;
and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD .
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered ,
and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen ,
then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob .
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And they shall dwell safely therein ,
and shall build houses ,
and plant vineyards ;
yea ,
they shall dwell with confidence ,
when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them ;
and they shall know that I am the LORD their God .
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In the tenth year ,
in the tenth month ,
in the twelfth day of the month ,
the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,