Ezekiel 27

¹The word of the Lord came to me:

²Now you, son of man , raise a lamentation over Tyre ,

³and say to Tyre , who dwells at the entrances to the sea , merchant of the peoples to many coastlands , thus says the Lord God: O Tyre , you have said , I am perfect in beauty .

⁴Your borders are in the heart of the seas ; your builders made perfect your beauty .

⁵They made all your planks of fir trees from Senir ; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

⁶Of oaks of Bashan they made your oars ; they made your deck of pines from the coasts of Cyprus , inlaid with ivory .

⁷Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail , serving as your banner ; blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your awning .

⁸The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers ; your skilled men, O Tyre , were in you; they were your pilots .

⁹The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you, caulking your seams ; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to barter for your wares .

¹⁰Persia and Lud and Put were in your army as your men of war . They hung the shield and helmet in you; they gave you splendor .

¹¹Men of Arvad and Helech were on your walls all around , and men of Gamad were in your towers . They hung their shields on your walls all around ; they made perfect your beauty .

¹²Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of every kind; silver , iron , tin , and lead they exchanged for your wares .

¹³Javan , Tubal , and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise .

¹⁴From Beth-togarmah they exchanged horses , war horses , and mules for your wares .

¹⁵The men of Dedan traded with you. Many coastlands were your own special markets ; they brought you in payment ivory tusks and ebony .

¹⁶Syria did business with you because of your abundant goods ; they exchanged for your wares emeralds , purple , embroidered work , fine linen , coral , and ruby .

¹⁷Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minnith , meal , honey , oil , and balm .

¹⁸Damascus did business with you for your abundant goods , because of your great wealth of every kind; wine of Helbon and wool of Sahar

¹⁹and casks of wine from Uzal they exchanged for your wares ; wrought iron , cassia , and calamus were bartered for your merchandise .

²⁰Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding .

²¹Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your favored dealers in lambs , rams , and goats ; in these they did business with you.

²²The traders of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; they exchanged for your wares the best of all kinds of spices and all precious stones and gold .

²³Haran , Canneh , Eden , traders of Sheba , Asshur , and Chilmad traded with you.

²⁴In your market these traded with you in choice garments , in clothes of blue and embroidered work , and in carpets of colored material , bound with cords and made secure .

²⁵The ships of Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise . So you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas .

²⁶Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas . The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas .

²⁷Your riches , your wares , your merchandise , your mariners and your pilots , your caulkers , your dealers in merchandise , and all your men of war who are in you, with all your crew that is in your midst , sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall .

²⁸At the sound of the cry of your pilots the countryside shakes ,

²⁹and down from their ships come all who handle the oar . The mariners and all the pilots of the sea stand on the land

³⁰and shout aloud over you and cry out bitterly . They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes ;

³¹they make themselves bald for you and put sackcloth on their waist , and they weep over you in bitterness of soul , with bitter mourning .

³²In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you and lament over you: Who is like Tyre , like one destroyed in the midst of the sea ?

³³When your wares came from the seas , you satisfied many peoples ; with your abundant wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth .

³⁴Now you are wrecked by the seas , in the depths of the waters ; your merchandise and all your crew in your midst have sunk with you.

³⁵All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled at you, and the hair of their kings bristles with horror ; their faces are convulsed .

³⁶The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever .