Sep 13 - Ezekiel 27-29
Ezekiel
1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying2"You, therefore, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre3And you shall say to Tyre, which lives at the entrance to the sea, which is the marketplace of the peoples for the many islands: Thus says the Lord God: O Tyre, you have said, ‘I am of perfect beauty4for I have been positioned at the heart of the sea!’ Your neighbors, who built you, have filled up your beauty5They constructed you with spruce from Senir, with all the planks of the sea. They have taken cedars from Lebanon, so that they might make a mast for you6They have formed your oars from the oaks of Bashan. And they have made your crossbeams from Indian ivory, and the pilothouse is from the islands of Italy7Colorful fine linen from Egypt was woven for you as a sail to be placed upon the mast; hyacinth and purple from the islands of Elishah were made into your covering8The inhabitants of Sidon and of Arwad were your rowers. Your wise ones, O Tyre, were your navigators9The elders of Gebal and its experts were considered as sailors making use of your diverse equipment. All the ships of the sea and their sailors were your merchants among the people10The Persians, and the Lydians, and the Libyans were your men of war in your army. They suspended shield and helmet within you for your adornment11The sons of Arwad were with your army upon your walls all around. And even the Gammadim, who were in your towers, suspended their quivers on your walls on all sides; they completed your beauty12The Carthaginians, your merchants, supplied your festivals with a multitude of diverse riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead13Greece, Tubal, and Meshech, these were your peddlers; they traveled to your people with slaves and with brass vessels14From the house of Togarmah, they brought horses, and horsemen, and mules to your market15The sons of Dedan were your merchants. The many islands were the marketplace of your hand. They traded teeth of ivory and of ebony for your price16The Syrian was your merchant. Because of the multitude of your works, they offered jewels, and purple, and patterned cloth, and fine linen, and silk, and other valuables in your market17Judah and the land of Israel, these were your peddlers of the best grain; they offered balsam, and honey, and oil, and resins at your festivals18The Damascene was your trader in the multitude of your works, in greatly diverse wealth, in rich wine, in wool with the finest coloring19Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have offered works made of iron at your festivals. Storax ointment and sweet flag were in your marketplace20The men of Dedan were your peddlers of tapestries used as seats21Arabia and all the leaders of Kedar, these were the merchants at your hand. Your merchants came to you with lambs, and rams, and young goats22The vendors of Sheba and Raamah, these were your merchants, with all the finest aromatics, and precious stones, and gold, which they offered in your marketplace23Haran, and Canneh, and Eden were your merchants. Sheba, Assur, and Chilmad were your sellers24These were your merchants in many places, with windings of hyacinth and of colorful weavings, and with precious treasures, which were wrapped and bound with cords. Also, they had works of cedar among your merchandise25The ships of the sea were important to your business dealings. For you were replenished and exceedingly glorified in the heart of the sea26Your rowers have brought you into many waters. The south wind has worn you down in the heart of the sea27Your riches, and your treasures, and your versatile equipment, your sailors and your navigators, who handle your goods and who were first among your people, likewise your men of war, who were among you, and your entire multitude that is in your midst: they will fall in the heart of the sea on the day of your ruin28Your fleets will be disturbed by the sound of an outcry from your navigators29And all who were handling the oar will descend from their ships; the sailors and all the navigators of the sea will stand upon the land30And they will howl over you with a great voice, and they will cry out with bitterness. And they will cast dust upon their heads, and they will be sprinkled with ashes31And they will shave their heads because of you, and they will be wrapped in haircloth. And they will weep for you with bitterness of soul, with a very bitter weeping32And they will take up a mournful verse over you, and they will lament you: ‘What city is like Tyre, which has become mute in the midst of the sea?33For by the going forth of your merchandise by sea, you supplied many peoples; by the multitude of your riches and of your people, you enriched the kings of the earth34Now you have been worn away by the sea, your opulence is in the depths of the waters, and your entire multitude that was in your midst has fallen35All the inhabitants of the islands have been stupefied over you; and all their kings, having been struck by the tempest, have changed their expression36The merchants of the peoples have hissed over you. You have been reduced to nothing, and you shall not be again, even forever.
1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying2"Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, ‘I am God, and I sit in the chair of God, in the heart of the sea,’ though you are a man, and not God, and because you have presented your heart as if it were the heart of God3Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is concealed from you4By your wisdom and prudence, you have made yourself strong, and you have acquired gold and silver for your storehouses5By the multitude of your wisdom, and by your business dealings, you have multiplied strength for yourself. And your heart has been exalted by your strength6Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because your heart has been exalted as if it were the heart of God7for this reason, behold, I will lead over you foreigners, the most robust among the Gentiles. And they will bare their swords over the beauty of your wisdom, and they will defile your beauty8They will destroy you and pull you down. And you will die the death of those slain in the heart of the sea9So then, will you speak, in the presence of those who are destroying you, before the hand of those who are killing you, saying, ‘I am God,’ though you are a man, and not God10You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hand of foreigners. For I have spoken, says the Lord God.11And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: "Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre12and you shall say to him: Thus says the Lord God: You were the seal of similitudes, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty13You were with the delights of the Paradise of God. Every precious stone was your covering: sardius, topaz, and jasper, chrysolite, and onyx, and beryl, sapphire, and garnet, and emerald. The work of your beauty was of gold, and your fissures were ready in the day when you were formed14You were a cherub, stretched out and protecting, and I stationed you on the holy mountain of God. You have walked in the midst of stones containing fire15You were perfect in your ways, from the day of your formation, until iniquity was found in you16By the multitude of your business dealings, your interior was filled with iniquity, and you sinned. And I cast you away from the mountain of God, and I perished you, O protecting cherub, from the midst of the stones containing fire17And your heart was exalted by your beauty; you have destroyed your own wisdom by your beauty. I have cast you to the ground. I have presented you before the face of kings, so that they may examine you18You have defiled your sanctuaries, by the multitude of your iniquities and by the iniquity of your business dealings. Therefore, I will produce a fire from your midst, which will consume you, and I will make you into ashes upon the earth, in the sight of all who are watching you19All who gaze upon you among the Gentiles will be stupefied over you. You were made out of nothing, and you shall not be, forever.20And the word of the Lord came to me, saying21"Son of man, set your face against Sidon, and you shall prophesy about it22And you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Sidon, and I will be glorified in your midst. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I will have executed judgments in her, and when I will have been sanctified in her23And I will send a pestilence upon her, and there will be blood in her streets. And they will fall, slain by the sword, on every side in her midst. And they shall know that I am the Lord24And the house of Israel will no longer be a stumbling block of bitterness, nor a thorn bringing pain everywhere around them, to those who turn against them. And they shall know that I am the Lord God.25Thus says the Lord God: "When I will have gathered together the house of Israel, from the peoples among whom they have been dispersed, I shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the Gentiles. And they shall live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob26And they shall live within it securely. And they shall build houses and plant vineyards. And they shall live in confidence, when I will have executed judgments upon all those who turn against them on every side. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God.
1In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the eleventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying2"Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and you shall prophesy about him and about all of Egypt3Speak, and you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, you great dragon, who rests in the midst of your rivers. And you say: ‘Mine is the river, and I have made myself.4But I will place a bridle in your jaws. And I will adhere the fish of your rivers to your scales. And I will draw you out of the midst of your rivers, and all your fish will adhere to your scales5And I will cast you into the desert, with all the fish of your river. You will fall upon the surface of the earth; you will not be taken up, nor gathered together. I have given you to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the air, to be devoured6And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord. For you have been a staff made of reed to the house of Israel7When they took hold of you with the hand, you broke, and so you wounded all of their shoulders. And when they leaned on you, you shattered, and so you injured all of their lower backs8Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will lead the sword over you, and I will destroy both man and beast from among you9And the land of Egypt will be a desert and a wilderness. And they shall know that I am the Lord. For you have said, ‘The river is mine, and I have made it.10Therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers. And I will make the land of Egypt into a wilderness, destroyed by the sword from the tower of Syene all the way to the borders of Ethiopia11The foot of man will not pass through it, and the foot of cattle will not walk in it. And it will be uninhabited for forty years12And I will set the land of Egypt in desolation, in the midst of desolate lands, and its cities in the midst of overturned cites. And they will be desolate for forty years. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and I will disperse them among the lands13For thus says the Lord God: After the end of forty years, I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they had been scattered14And I will lead back the captivity of Egypt, and I will collect them in the land of Pathros, in the land of their nativity. And in that place, they will be a lowly kingdom15It will be the lowest among the other kingdoms, and it will no longer be exalted above the nations. And I will diminish them, lest they rule over the Gentiles16And they will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, teaching iniquity, so that they may flee and follow them. And they shall know that I am the Lord God.17And it happened that, in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying18"Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has caused his army to serve with great servility against Tyre. Every head was shaven, and every shoulder was stripped of hair. And wages have not been paid to him, nor to his army, for Tyre, for the service by which he served for me against it19Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will station Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, in the land of Egypt. And he will take its multitude, and he will prey upon its profits, and he will plunder its spoils. And this shall be the wages for his arm20and for the work by which he has served against it. I have given to him the land of Egypt, because he has labored for me, says the Lord God21In that day, a horn will spring forth for the house of Israel, and I will give to you an open mouth in their midst. And they shall know that I am the Lord.