Ezekiel 27:2
“You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
In Context
1The LORD’s word came again to me, saying,
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:10I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burnt up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.
Jeremiah 9:17The LORD of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skilful women, that they may come.
Ezekiel 19:1“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Ezekiel 27:32In their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, ‘Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the middle of the sea?’
Ezekiel 32:2“Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, ‘You were likened to a young lion of the nations; yet you are as a monster in the seas. You broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.’”
Amos 5:16Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways. They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skilful in lamentation to wailing.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 27:2-26
The Prosperity of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 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… Read the whole commentary →