27: 2 And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
27: 3 and say unto Tyre, O thou that dwellest at the 232entry of the sea, that art the merchant of the peoples unto many isles, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou, O Tyre, hast said, I am perfect in beauty.
232Hb. entrances
27: 4 Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
27: 5 They have 233made all thy planks of fir-trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for thee.
233Hb. built
27: 6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; they have made thy 234benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim.
234Or, deck
27: 7 Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was thy sail, that it might be to thee for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thine awning.
27: 8 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.
27: 9 The 235old men 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 236deal in thy merchandise.
235Or, elders of Gebal
236Or, exchange
27: 10 Persia and Lud and Put were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy splendor.
27: 11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and valorous men were in thy towers; they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have perfected thy beauty.
27: 12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; 237with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares.
237The Celts mined silver, iron, and lead in Spain, and tin in Cornwall (SW England). Compare Ge 10.
27: 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers; they traded the souls of man and 238vessels of copper for thy merchandise.
238Armenia (Meshech) had the copper mines, Georgia (Tubal) was the great center for refining it, and Greece (Javan = Ionia) fabricated the copperware.
27: 14 They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares with horses and war-horses and mules.
27: 15 The children of Dedan were thy traffickers; many isles were the mart of thy hand: they brought thee 239in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.
239Or, for a present, horns of ivory and ebony.
27: 16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of thy handiworks: they traded for thy wares with 240emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.
240Or, carbuncles,
27: 17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy traffickers; they traded for thy merchandise wheat of Minnith, and 241pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
241Perhaps, a kind of confection.
27: 18 Damascus was thy merchant for the multitude of thy handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
27: 19 Vedan and Javan traded 242with yarn for thy wares: 243bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise.
242Hbmg Sept. Aram, GkAq read, from Uzal for thy wares:
243Or, wrought iron,
27: 20 Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
27: 21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of thy hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they thy merchants.
27: 22 The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy traffickers; they traded for thy wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
27: 23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Kilmad, were thy traffickers.
27: 24 These were thy traffickers in choice wares, in 244wrappings of blue and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
244Or, bales
27: 25 The 245ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.
245That is, ocean-going vessels such as the Celts made.
27: 26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
27: 27 Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the 246dealers in thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, 247with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
246Or, exchangers
247Or, and in all thy company
27: 28 At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the 248suburbs shall shake.
248Or, waves
27: 29 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,
27: 30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
27: 31 and they shall make themselves bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
27: 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, Who is there like Tyre, like her that is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?
27: 33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
27: 34 In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the midst of thee.
27: 35 All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance.
27: 36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become 249a terror, and thou shalt nevermore have any being.
249Or, a destruction, Hb. terrors,
