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Ezekiel 27 Summary
Tyre's Wealth and Merchants Mourned
Ezekiel raises a lamentation for Tyre, depicting her as perfectly beautiful, built with fine materials, and prosperous through commerce with many nations. Merchants from Persia, Edom, Sheba, and others traded their goods for Tyre's wares, enriching her and her marine workers. When Tyre is broken by the sea and sinks into the depths, her merchants, pilots, and mariners shall fall, and all who know her shall hiss and say no city was like the destroyed Tyre.
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Key verses
Ezekiel 27:3
“And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.”
Ezekiel 27:25
“The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.”
Ezekiel 27:27
“Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.”
Ezekiel 27:36
“The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.”
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