Yehezkiel 27:1-5

A Lament for Tyre

27:1 The word of the Lord came to me: 27:2 “You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre. ¹  27:3 Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance ²  of the sea, ³  merchant to the peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfectly beautiful.”

27:4 ⁴ Your borders are in the heart of the seas;

your builders have perfected your beauty.

27:5 They crafted ⁵  all your planks out of fir trees from Senir; ⁶ 

they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.

[27:2]  ¹ tn Heb “lift up over Tyre a lament.”

[27:3]  ² tn Heb “entrances.” The plural noun may reflect the fact that Tyre had two main harbors.

[27:3]  ³ sn Rome, another economic power, is described in a similar way in Rev 17:1.

[27:4]  ⁴ tn The city of Tyre is described in the following account as a merchant ship.

[27:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “built.”

[27:5]  ⁶ tn Perhaps the hull or deck. The term is dual, so perhaps it refers to a double-decked ship.