Ezekiel Chapter 27

Beauty and Riches of Tyrus

27:1 The word of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here came again to me, saying,
27:2 Now, you son of manאָדָם‎
Transliteration: ‘āḏām Pronunciation: aw-dam’ man, human being
man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) Adam, first man city in Jordan valley For more info click here, take up a lamentation for Tyrusצֹר
Transliteration: ṣōr – proper locative noun – Tyre or Tyrus = “a rock” the Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast. for more info click here;
27:3 And say to Tyrusלְצוֹר
Transliteration: lᵊṣôr – proper locative noun – Tyre or Tyrus = “a rock” the Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast. for more info click here, O you that are situated at the entry of the sea, which are a merchant of the people for many islands, So says Adonaiהָאָדוֹן
 the Lord, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here; O Tyrusצֹר
Transliteration: ṣōr – proper locative noun – Tyre or Tyrus = “a rock” the Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast. for more info click here, you have said, I am of perfect beauty.
27:4 your borders are in the middle of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.
27:5 They have made all your [ship] boards of fir trees of Senir (Senir or Shenir): they have taken cedars from Lebanonמִלְּבָנוֹן
Transliteration: millᵊḇānôn from Lebanon = “whiteness” a wooded mountain range on the northern border of Israel – For more info click here to make masts for you.
27:6 Of the oaks of Bashanבָּשָׁן
Transliteration: bāšān – Bashan = “fruitful” a district east of the Jordan known for its fertility which was given to the half-tribe of Manasseh – For more info click here have they made your oars; the company of the Ashurites have made your benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim (or Kittim).
27:7 Fine linen with embroidered work from Egyptמִמִּצְרַיִם‎
Transliteration: mimmiṣrayim adjective, proper locative noun – Egypt = “land of the Copts (a member of a people descended from the ancient Egyptians)” . For more info click here was that which you spread out to be your sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that that covered you.
27:8 The inhabitants of Zidon (or Sidon = “hunting”) and Arvad (meaning I will break loose) were your mariners: your wise men, O Tyrusצֹר
Transliteration: ṣōr – proper locative noun – Tyre or Tyrus = “a rock” the Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast. for more info click here, that were in you, were your pilots.
27:9 The ancients of Gebal (meaning mountain) and the wise men of it were in you your calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to occupy your merchandise.
27:10 Those of Persiaפָּרַס
Transliteration: pāras – proper noun with reference to territory and people – Persia” is the historical name used in the West for the region and civilization of ancient Iran, which served as the dominant power in western Asia for over twelve centuries through three successive native dynasties—the Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sasanian—ruling empires of unprecedented size and complexity. The term “Persia” originates from the Greek designation for Persis (or Parsa), the southwestern Iranian homeland of the Persians, while the indigenous name “Iran” derives from ancient Aryan roots used internally since antiquity. for more info click here and of Lud (or Lydia) and of Phut (or Put) were [mercenaries] in your army, your men of war: they hung the shield and helmet in you; they set forth your comeliness.
27:11 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls on all sides, and the Gammadims (warriors) were in your towers: they hung their shields on your walls on all sides; they have made your beauty perfect.
27:12 Tarshish (or Tharshish) was your merchant because of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in your fairs.
27:13 Greece, Tubal (meaning you will be brought), and Meshech (or Mesech), they were your merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of bronze in your market.
27:14 Those of the house of Togarmah traded in your fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
27:15 The men of Dedan were your merchants; many islands were the merchandise of your hand: they brought you horns of ivory and ebony for a present.
27:16 Syriaאֲרָם
Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite:—Aram, Mesopotamia, Syria, Syrians For more info click here was your merchant because of the multitude of the wares of your making: they occupied in your fairs with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
27:17 Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea – For more info click here, and the land of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here, they were your merchants: they traded in your market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
27:18 Damascusדַּמֶּשֶׂק
Transliteration: dammeśeq Pronunciation: dam-meh’-sek Damascus = “silent is the sackcloth weaver” an ancient trading city, capital of Syria, located in the plain east of Hermon, 130 (205 km) miles northeast of Jerusalem – For more info click here was your merchant in the multitude of the wares of your making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon (meaning fertile), and white wool.
27:19 Dan also and Greece going to and fro occupied in your fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in your market.
27:20 Dedan was your merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
27:21 Arabia (meaning steppe-dwellers), and all the rulers of Kedar, they occupied with you in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they your merchants.
27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah (meaning horse’s mane), they were your merchants: they occupied in your fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
27:23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyriaאַשּׁוּר
Transliteration:aššûr Pronunciation:ash-shoor’, Asshur or Assyria = “a step” Assyria was an ancient kingdom and empire in northern Mesopotamia, originating as a city-state at Ashur on the Tigris River and developing into a dominant Near Eastern power through military expansion and administrative innovation over three millennia Its early phases included the Old Assyrian period (c. 2025–1750 BC) For more info click here, [and] Chilmad (meaning enclosure), were your merchants.
27:24 These were your merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and embroidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with ropes, and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
27:25 The ships of Tarshish sung of you in your market: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the middle of the seas.

Tyrus’ irrecoverable fall

27:26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the middle of the seas.
27:27 Your riches, and your fairs, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your calkers, and the occupiers of your merchandise, and all your men of war, that are with you, and in all your company that is in the middle of you, will fall into the middle of the seas on the day of your ruin.
27:28 The suburbs will shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots.
27:29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, will come down from their ships, they will stand on the land;
27:30 And will cause their voice to be heard against you, and will cry bitterly, and will throw dust on their heads, they will wallow themselves in the ashes:
27:31 And they will make themselves completely bald for you, and clothe them in sackcloth, and they will weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
27:32 And in their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, What city is like Tyrusכְצוֹר
Transliteration: ḵᵊṣôr – proper locative noun – Tyre or Tyrus = “a rock” the Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast. for more info click here, like the destroyed in the middle of the sea?
27:33 When your wares went out of the seas, you filled many people; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.
27:34 In the time when you will be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters your merchandise and all your company in the middle of you will fall.
27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles will be astonished at you, and their kings will be sore afraid, they will be troubled in [their] presence.
27:36 The merchants among the people will whistle at you; you will be a terror, and never will be anymore.