November
24th Ezekiel 26 Tyre
1: And it came to pass in the eleventh
year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2: Son of man, because that
Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the
people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: 3: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up
against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. 4: And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her
towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a
rock. 5: It shall be a place
for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith
the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. 6: And her daughters which are in the
field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 7: For thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of
kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and
companies, and much people. 8:
He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a
fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler
against thee. 9: And he shall
set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy
towers. 10: By reason of the
abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at
the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he
shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. 11: With the hoofs of his horses
shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and
thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. 12: And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey
of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy
pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in
the midst of the water. 13: And
I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall
be no more heard. 14: And I
will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets
upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the
Lord GOD. 15: Thus saith the
Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the
wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? 16: Then all the princes of the sea
shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their
broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit
upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee. 17: And they shall take up a
lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast
inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea,
she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it! 18: Now shall the isles tremble in
the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at
thy departure. 19: For thus
saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities
that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great
waters shall cover thee; 20:
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the
people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places
desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited;
and I shall set glory in the land of the living; 21: I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though
thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
27 The funeral dirge for Tyre
1: The word of the LORD came again
unto me, saying, 2: Now, thou
son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; 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. 4: Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have
perfected thy beauty. 5: They
have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars
from Lebanon
to make masts for thee. 6: Of
the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars;
the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the
isles of Chittim. 7: Fine linen
with broidered work from Egypt
was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the
isles of Elishah was that which covered thee. 8: The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy
wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. 9: The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee
thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to
occupy thy merchandise. 10:
They of Persia
and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the
shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. 11: The men of Arvad with thine army
were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they
hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty
perfect. 12: Tarshish was thy
merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron,
tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs. 13:
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of
men and vessels of brass in thy market. 14:
They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and
mules. 15: The men of Dedan
were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought
thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony. 16: Syria
was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they
occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine
linen, and coral, and agate. 17:
Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they
traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and
balm. 18: Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of
the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of
Helbon, and white wool. 19: Dan
also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and
calamus, were in thy market. 20:
Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. 21: Arabia,
and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and
goats: in these were they thy merchants. 22:
The merchants of Sheba
and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of
all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. 23: Haran, and Canneh, and Eden,
the merchants of Sheba,
Assur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants. 24:
These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered
work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among
thy merchandise. 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. 26:
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee
in the midst of the seas. 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. 28: The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
29: And all that handle the
oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their
ships, they shall stand upon the land; 30:
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly,
and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the
ashes: 31: And they shall make
themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall
weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 32: And in their wailing they shall
take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like
Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? 33: When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst
many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy
riches and of thy merchandise. 34:
In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters
thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. 35: All the inhabitants of the isles
shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall
be troubled in their countenance. 36:
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and
never shalt be any more.
Ezekiel
28 The King of Tyre
1: The word of the LORD came again
unto me, saying, 2: Son of man,
say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is
lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the
midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart
as the heart of God: 3: Behold,
thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: 4: With thy wisdom and with thine
understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver
into thy treasures: 5: By thy
great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine
heart is lifted up because of thy riches: 6: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set
thine heart as the heart of God; 7:
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the
nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and
they shall defile thy brightness. 8:
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them
that are slain in the midst of the seas. 9:
Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a
man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. 10: Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand
of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 11: Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 12: Son of man, take up a lamentation
upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest
up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13: Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious
stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the
onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold:
the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day
that thou wast created. 14:
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast
upon the holy mountain
of God; thou hast walked
up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15: Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast
created, till iniquity was found in thee. 16: By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the
midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee
as profane out of the mountain
of God: and I will destroy
thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17: Thine heart was lifted up because
of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I
will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold
thee. 18: Thou hast defiled thy
sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy
traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall
devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all
them that behold thee. 19: All
they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be
a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Zidon
20: Again the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying, 21: Son of
man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, 22: And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of
thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed
judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. 23: For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her
streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon
her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Israel
24: And there shall be no more a
pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of
all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I
am the Lord GOD. 25: Thus saith
the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they
are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen,
then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. 26: And they shall dwell safely
therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell
with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise
them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.
Next Ezekiel records a prophecy that came in the 11th
year and the first month. This time it is a prophecy against Tyrus. The
prophecy was that one day the city would be destroyed and carried away into the
sea leaving nothing but rock in the sun. The Babylonians will come and kill all
the people. The houses both timber and stones will be cast into the sea. The
city will be like the top of a flat rock – good for drying nets. And the people
will be destroyed forever. In the next chapter Ezekiel is told to make a lament
for Tyrus. The city was very beautiful and yet it will be totally destroyed.
Ezekiel goes on to describe their cosmopolitan riches. Men came from Spain. Russia, the east, Saudi
Arabia and Africa to
trade there. Yet they will weep bitterly for Tyrus and sit is sackcloth and
ashes. Lastly the Lord brings a personal message to the prince of Tyrus. The
message is that their riches have caused them to think that they are God! Yet
says Ezekiel you are men not God! They will face destruction in the sea and
those who destroy them will not be impressed by them. Next Ezekiel breaks off
to speak of Satan in his pride, who though he is beautiful will be cast down.
It seems that there is a link between the great wealth of Tyrus and Satan
himself. Next Ezekiel prophesies against Sidon.
The Lord will send pestilence and war to her streets. They will all know that
the Lord is God.
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