November
24th Ezekiel
26
Tyre
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.
- What does the Lord prophecy concerning Tyre?
- What does the Lord prophecy concering the King of Tyre?
- What does the Lord say regarding Satan?
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