Ezekiel 27:32

American Standard Version (1901)

And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her that is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?

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  • Ezek 26:17 : 17 And they shall take up a lamentation over thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, that was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, that caused their terror to be on all that dwelt there!
  • Ezek 27:2 : 2 And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
  • Rev 18:18 : 18 and cried out as they looked upon the smoke of her burning, saying, What [city] is like the great city?
  • Ezek 27:26 : 26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
  • Lam 1:12 : 12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
  • Lam 2:13 : 13 What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
  • Ezek 26:4-5 : 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. 5 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.

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  • Ezek 27:30-31
    2 verses
    89%

    30and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

    31and they shall make themselves bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.

  • Ezek 26:14-18
    5 verses
    88%

    14And I will make thee a bare rock; thou shalt be a place for the spreading of nets; thou shalt be built no more: for I Jehovah have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

    15Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?

    16Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at thee.

    17And they shall take up a lamentation over thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, that was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, that caused their terror to be on all that dwelt there!

    18Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at thy departure.

  • Ezek 27:2-4
    3 verses
    84%

    2And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

    3and say unto Tyre, O thou that dwellest at the entry of the sea, that art the merchant of the peoples unto many isles, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou, O Tyre, hast said, I am perfect in beauty.

    4Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

  • Ezek 27:33-36
    4 verses
    83%

    33When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

    34In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the midst of thee.

    35All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance.

    36The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou shalt nevermore have any being.

  • Isa 23:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

    2Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

  • Isa 23:4-8
    5 verses
    80%

    4Be thou ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea hath spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.

    5When the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

    6Pass ye over to Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the coast.

    7Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?

    8Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

  • Ezek 27:25-28
    4 verses
    79%

    25The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.

    26Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.

    27Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the dealers in thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

    28At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the suburbs shall shake.

  • Isa 23:14-17
    4 verses
    78%

    14Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste.

    15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it shall be unto Tyre as in the song of the harlot.

    16Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

    17And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

  • Ezek 26:2-5
    4 verses
    78%

    2Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken [that was] the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:

    3therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up.

    4And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

    5She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.

  • Rev 18:18-19
    2 verses
    77%

    18and cried out as they looked upon the smoke of her burning, saying, What [city] is like the great city?

    19And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, wherein all that had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

  • Isa 3:26
    76%

    26And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

  • Ezek 27:7-9
    3 verses
    75%

    7Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was thy sail, that it might be to thee for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thine awning.

    8The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.

    9The old men 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 deal in thy merchandise.

  • Ezek 26:12
    75%

    12And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise; and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses; and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters.

  • Nah 3:7
    74%

    7And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

  • Rev 18:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;

    16saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she that was arrayed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearl!

  • Amos 1:10
    73%

    10but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

  • Ezek 28:12
    73%

    12Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

  • Zech 9:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

    4Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

  • Isa 23:12
    73%

    12And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shalt thou have no rest.

  • Jer 22:8
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    8And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city?

  • Ezek 32:16
    73%

    16This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, saith the Lord Jehovah.