Ezekiel 27:4
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.
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- Ezek 26:5 : 5 She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. She will become plunder for the nations,
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- Ezek 27:2-32 verses88%
2 “You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre.
3 Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance of the sea, merchant to the peoples on many coasts,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘O Tyre, you have said,“I am perfectly beautiful.”
- Ezek 27:24-274 verses80%
24 They traded with you choice garments, purple clothes and embroidered work, and multicolored carpets, bound and reinforced with cords; these were among your merchandise.
25 The ships of Tarshish were the transports for your merchandise.“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.
26 Your rowers have brought you into surging waters. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.
27 Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains, your ship’s carpenters, your merchants, and all your fighting men within you, along with all your crew who are in you, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.
- Ezek 27:32-354 verses79%
32 As they wail they will lament over you, chanting:“Who was like Tyre, like a tower in the midst of the sea?”
33 When your products went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.
34 Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.
35 All the inhabitants of the coastlands are shocked at you, and their kings are horribly afraid– their faces are troubled.
- Ezek 27:5-128 verses78%
5 They crafted all your planks out of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.
6 They made your oars from oaks of Bashan; they made your deck with cypress wood from the coasts of Cyprus.
7 Fine linen from Egypt, woven with patterns, was used for your sail to serve as your banner; blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah was used for your deck’s awning.
8 The leaders of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were your captains.
9 The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were within you, mending cracks; all the ships of the sea and their mariners were within you to trade for your merchandise.
10 Men of Persia, Lud, and Put were in your army, men of war. They hung shield and helmet on you; they gave you your splendor.
11 The Arvadites joined your army on your walls all around, and the Gammadites were in your towers. They hung their quivers on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.
12 “‘Tarshish was your trade partner because of your abundant wealth; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your products.
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12 “Son of man, sing a lament for the king of Tyre, and say to him,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘You were the sealer of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
- Ezek 16:13-142 verses76%
13 You were adorned with gold and silver, while your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidery. You ate the finest flour, honey, and olive oil. You became extremely beautiful and attained the position of royalty.
14 Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty; your beauty was perfect because of the splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the Sovereign LORD.
- Ezek 26:2-54 verses73%
2 “Son of man, because Tyre has said about Jerusalem,‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, now that she has been destroyed,’
3 therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am against you, O Tyre! I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.
5 She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. She will become plunder for the nations,
- Ezek 26:14-185 verses73%
14 I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place where fishing nets are spread. You will never be built again, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.
15 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!
16 All the princes of the sea will vacate their thrones. They will remove their robes and strip off their embroidered clothes; they will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground; they will tremble continually and be shocked at what has happened to you.
17 They will sing this lament over you:“‘How you have perished– you have vanished from the seas, O renowned city, once mighty in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror!
18 Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’
- Isa 23:7-82 verses73%
7 Is this really your boisterous city whose origins are in the distant past, and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?
8 Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?
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22 all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon; all the kings of the coastlands along the sea;
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16 Edom was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your products.
- Zech 9:2-43 verses72%
2 as are those of Hamath also, which adjoins Damascus, and Tyre and Sidon, though they consider themselves to be very wise.
3 Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!
4 Nevertheless the Lord will evict her and shove her fortifications into the sea– she will be consumed by fire.
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7 I am about to bring foreigners against you, the most terrifying of nations. They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.
- Isa 23:1-22 verses72%
1 The Lord Will Judge Tyre This is an oracle about Tyre: Wail, you large ships, for the port is too devastated to enter! From the land of Cyprus this news is announced to them.
2 Lament, you residents of the coast, you merchants of Sidon who travel over the sea, whose agents sail over
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10 Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile; there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.
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6 The Western Border of the Land“‘And for a western border you will have the Great Sea. This will be your western border.
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16 for all the large ships, for all the impressive ships.
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4 Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea says this, O fortress of the sea:“I have not gone into labor or given birth; I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
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14 Wail, you large ships, for your fortress is destroyed!
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9 Indeed, the coastlands look eagerly for me, the large ships are in the lead, bringing your sons from far away, along with their silver and gold, to honor the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has bestowed honor on you.
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2 “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Your heart is proud and you said,“I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas”– yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike.
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5 By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth.
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17 You will see a king in his splendor; you will see a wide land.
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2 For he set its foundation upon the seas, and established it upon the ocean currents.