for I Yahweh have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
026:015 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the islands
shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan,
when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?
026:016 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones,
and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments:
they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall
sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be
astonished at you.
026:017 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you,
How are you destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men,
the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and
her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all
who lived there!
026:018 Now shall the islands tremble in the day of your fall;
yes, the islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed
at your departure.
026:019 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you
a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited;
when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters
shall cover you;
026:020 then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit,
to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower
parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old,
with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited;
and I will set glory in the land of the living:
026:021 I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being;
though you are sought for, yet shall you never be found again,
says the Lord Yahweh.
027:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
027:002 You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
027:003 and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea,
who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands,
thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am
perfect in beauty.
027:004 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders
have perfected your beauty.
027:005 They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir;
they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
027:006 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars;
they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood,
from the islands of Kittim.
027:007 Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail,
that it might be to you for a banner; blue and purple from
the islands of Elishah was your awning.
027:008 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers:
your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.
027:009 The old men of Gebal and the wise men of it were in you your
repairers of ship seams: all the ships of the sea with their
mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.
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