Ezekiel sings a lament over Tyre, picturing it as a great ship built of cypress and cedar, with merchants from many nations. The ship breaks in the seas, and the mariners and merchants mourn.
1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying ,
2 Now, thou son of man , take up a lamentation for Tyrus ;
3 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 .
4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas , thy builders have perfected thy beauty .
5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir : they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
6 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 .
7 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.
8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners : thy wise men, O Tyrus , that were in thee, were thy pilots .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Javan , Tubal , and Meshech , they were thy merchants : they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market .
14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs : bright iron , cassia , and calamus , were in thy market .
20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots .
21 Arabia , and all the princes of Kedar , they occupied with thee in lambs , and rams , and goats : in these were they thy merchants .
22 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 .
23 Haran , and Canneh , and Eden , the merchants of Sheba , Asshur , and Chilmad , were thy merchants .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters : the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas .
27 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 .
28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots .
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 ;
30 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 :
31 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 .
32 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 ?
33 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 .
34 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 .
35 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 .
36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror , and never shalt be any more .