Ezekiel 27:2

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

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  • Jer 9:10 : 10 I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.
  • Jer 9:17-20 : 17 'Let them come quickly and lift up a lament over us so that our eyes may overflow with tears and our eyelids stream with water.' 18 'For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: “How devastated we are! We are utterly ashamed, for we have left the land and our dwellings have been cast off.”' 19 'Hear the word of the Lord, you women; let your ears receive the words of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail and one another to mourn.' 20 'For death has climbed in through our windows and entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets and young men from the public squares.'
  • Ezek 19:1 : 1 Now you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel.
  • Ezek 28:12 : 12 Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
  • Ezek 32:2 : 2 Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, 'You consider yourself like a young lion among the nations, but you are like a sea monster in the seas; you thrash about in your rivers, stir the waters with your feet, and muddy their streams.'
  • Amos 5:1 : 1 Listen to this word that I am raising against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel.
  • Amos 5:16 : 16 Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord says: There will be wailing in all the open squares, and in all the streets they will say, 'Woe, woe!' They will summon the farmer to mourning and professional mourners to lamentation.
  • Ezek 26:17 : 17 They will take up a lament over you and say to you: 'How you have perished, you who were inhabited by people of the seas, the renowned city, strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread terror among all who lived there.'
  • Ezek 27:32 : 32 And they will chant a dirge for you, lamenting, 'Who was ever like Tyre, silenced and destroyed in the midst of the sea?'
  • Jer 7:20 : 20 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on people and animals, on the trees of the field and the fruits of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.

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  • Ezek 27:3-4
    2 verses
    85%

    3 and say to Tyre, situated at the gateways of the sea, a merchant of peoples to many coastlands: 'Thus says the Lord God: Tyre, you have declared, "I am perfect in beauty."'

    4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

  • Ezek 28:11-12
    2 verses
    85%

    11 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    12 Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

  • Ezek 27:1
    84%

    1 The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

  • Ezek 27:30-33
    4 verses
    84%

    30 They will mourn over you with loud cries, bitterly wailing, throwing dust on their heads and rolling in ashes.

    31 They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. In deep anguish and bitter mourning, they will weep for you.

    32 And they will chant a dirge for you, lamenting, 'Who was ever like Tyre, silenced and destroyed in the midst of the sea?'

    33 When your merchandise went out to the seas, you satisfied many peoples. With your abundant wealth and your goods, you enriched the kings of the earth.

  • Ezek 26:1-5
    5 verses
    83%

    1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    2 Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha! The gateway of the peoples is broken; it has turned to me. I will be filled now that she lies in ruins.'

    3 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea bringing up its waves.'

    4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape away her soil and leave her as bare rock.

    5 She will become a drying place for fishing nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations.

  • Ezek 26:14-18
    5 verses
    79%

    14 'I will make you a bare rock, a place for spreading fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.'

    15 This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: 'Won't the coastlands tremble at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan and slaughter takes place within you?'

    16 Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones. They will remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. Clothed in trembling, they will sit on the ground, shuddering continually, appalled at you.

    17 They will take up a lament over you and say to you: 'How you have perished, you who were inhabited by people of the seas, the renowned city, strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread terror among all who lived there.'

    18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.

  • Ezek 28:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    2 Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: Because your heart has grown proud, and you have said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas,” but you are a man and not a god, though you have set your heart as if it were the heart of a god—

  • Isa 23:1
    77%

    1 This is a message concerning Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed. The news has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

  • Ezek 28:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    21 Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

  • Isa 23:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 When the news reaches Egypt, they will writhe in anguish at the report about Tyre.

    6 Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coastland.

  • Amos 1:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 Thus says the LORD: 'For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke punishment, because they delivered up an entire population to Edom and did not remember their treaty of brotherhood.'

    10 So I will send fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it will consume her palaces.

  • Ezek 27:25-27
    3 verses
    73%

    25 The ships of Tarshish carried your goods as your trading fleet. You were filled with merchandise and became glorious in the heart of the seas.

    26 Your rowers brought you into deep waters, but the east wind broke you apart in the heart of the seas.

    27 Your wealth, merchandise, wares, sailors, pilots, ship-repairers, merchants, and all your warriors, along with the people in your midst, will sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your ruin.

  • Ezek 21:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    2 Son of man, turn your face toward the south, and speak against the south. Prophesy against the forest of the southern land,

  • Ezek 4:1
    72%

    1 Now, you, son of man, take a brick and set it before you; then inscribe on it the city of Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 22:1
    72%

    1 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Ezek 27:9
    72%

    9 The elders of Gebal and its skilled workers repaired your leaks; all the ships of the sea and their sailors came to deal in your trade.

  • Ezek 26:7
    72%

    7 For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I will bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, from the north. He is a king of kings, with horses, chariots, horsemen, a great assembly, and a large army.'

  • Ezek 30:1
    72%

    1 The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

  • Ezek 32:2
    72%

    2 Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, 'You consider yourself like a young lion among the nations, but you are like a sea monster in the seas; you thrash about in your rivers, stir the waters with your feet, and muddy their streams.'

  • Isa 23:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is destroyed.

    15 On that day, Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s lifetime. At the end of seventy years, Tyre will be like the song of a prostitute.

  • Ezek 21:6
    71%

    6 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Isa 23:8
    71%

    8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were honored in the earth?

  • Ezek 11:4
    71%

    4 Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, son of man!

  • Zech 9:3
    71%

    3 Tyre has built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt in the streets.

  • Amos 5:1
    71%

    1 Listen to this word that I am raising against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel.

  • Ezek 29:17
    71%

    17 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Ezek 27:7
    71%

    7 Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your banner; blue and purple fabric from the coastlands of Elishah was your covering.

  • Ezek 19:1
    71%

    1 Now you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel.

  • Ezek 32:18
    71%

    18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and bring her and the daughters of mighty nations down to the earth below, to those who go down to the pit.