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Cântico fúnebre para Tiro

27 O Senhor me disse o seguinte:

— Homem mortal, cante um cântico fúnebre para Tiro, aquela cidade que fica à beira do mar e faz comércio com todos os povos que vivem no litoral. Diga que o Senhor Deus está dizendo isto:

“Tiro, você se orgulhava da sua beleza perfeita.
O mar é o seu lar.
Os seus construtores a fizeram parecida com um belo navio.
Na construção, usaram pinho do monte Hermom
e para o mastro usaram um cedro do Líbano.
Pegaram carvalho de Basã para fazer os remos.
Fizeram o seu convés de pinho de Chipre
e o enfeitaram com marfim.
As suas velas eram de linho bordado do Egito,
velas reconhecidas de longe.
Os seus toldos eram de tecido fino,
de púrpura da ilha de Chipre.
Ó Tiro, os seus marinheiros eram os seus próprios homens experientes,
e os seus remadores eram das cidades de Sidom e de Arvade.
Os carpinteiros do navio eram homens de Biblos,
bem-preparados.
Marinheiros de todos os navios do mar faziam negócios nas suas lojas.”

10 — Soldados da Pérsia, Lídia e Líbia serviam no seu exército. Eles penduravam os seus escudos e capacetes nas suas barracas. Eles conquistaram a glória para você. 11 Soldados de Arvade ficavam de guarda nas suas muralhas, e homens de Gamade guardavam as suas torres. Eles penduravam os escudos nas suas paredes. Foram estes que fizeram com que você ficasse bonita.

12 — Você fazia negócios na Espanha e em troca das suas muitas mercadorias você recebia prata, ferro, estanho e chumbo. 13 Você fazia negócios na Grécia, Tubal e Meseque e trocava as suas mercadorias por escravos e objetos de bronze. 14 Você trocava as suas mercadorias por cavalos comuns, por cavalos de guerra e por mulas de Bete-Togarma. 15 A gente de Rodes negociava com você. Em troca dos seus artigos, moradores de muitas terras do litoral davam a você marfim e madeira de ébano. 16 O povo da Síria comprava os seus muitos produtos e as suas mercadorias. Em troca das suas mercadorias, eles davam esmeraldas, tecidos de púrpura, bordados, linho fino, corais e rubis. 17 Judá e Israel pagavam as suas mercadorias com trigo de Minite, mel, azeite e especiarias. 18 Damasco negociava com você e em troca dos seus muitos produtos dava vinho de Helbom e lã de Saar. 19 De Uzal traziam para você vinho, ferro trabalhado e especiarias, que trocavam pelos seus artigos. 20 Em troca dos seus produtos, o povo de Dedã oferecia mantas para cavalo. 21 Os árabes e as autoridades de Quedar pagavam as suas mercadorias com carneirinhos, carneiros e bodes. 22 Em troca das suas mercadorias, os negociantes de Sabá e Ramá davam as mais finas especiarias, pedras preciosas e ouro. 23 As cidades de Harã, Cane e Éden, os comerciantes de Sabá, as cidades de Assur e Quilmade — todos faziam negócios com você. 24 Eles lhe vendiam roupas de luxo, tecidos de púrpura, bordados, tapetes de várias cores e cordas e cordões bem-trançados. 25 As suas mercadorias eram levadas em grupos de grandes navios cargueiros.

“Tiro, você parecia um navio no mar,
carregado com carga pesada.
26 Quando os seus remadores levaram você para o mar alto,
o vento leste a fez afundar longe de terra.
27 Toda a riqueza da sua mercadoria,
todos os marinheiros da tripulação,
os carpinteiros do navio e os seus comerciantes,
cada soldado que estava no navio —
todos, todos se perderam no mar
quando o navio afundou.
28 Os gritos dos marinheiros que se afogavam
foram ouvidos até na praia.
29 Todos os navios estão agora abandonados,
e todos os marinheiros foram para terra firme.
30 Todos eles choram amargamente por você,
jogando pó na cabeça e rolando nas cinzas
em sinal de tristeza.
31 Por sua causa, eles rapam a cabeça
e vestem roupa feita de pano grosseiro,
chorando com o coração amargurado.
32 Eles cantam para você esta canção triste:
‘Quem pode se comparar com Tiro,
que agora está em silêncio no meio do mar?
33 Quando as suas mercadorias
eram carregadas através dos mares,
você satisfazia a muitas nações.
Com a riqueza dos seus bens,
você enriqueceu os reis da terra.
34 Agora, você está no fundo do mar,
está afundada nas profundezas do oceano.
Os seus bens e todos aqueles que trabalhavam para você
desapareceram junto com você no mar.’ ”

35 — Todos os moradores do litoral estão apavorados com o que lhe aconteceu. Até os reis estão apavorados, e o medo está escrito na cara deles. 36 Você se acabou para sempre, e os comerciantes no mundo inteiro estão apavorados, com medo que aconteça com eles o mesmo que aconteceu com você.

27 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,

Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

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.

Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

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.

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.

The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.

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, Asshur, 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.

A Lament Over Tyre

27 The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, take up a lament(A) concerning Tyre. Say to Tyre,(B) situated at the gateway to the sea,(C) merchant of peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘You say, Tyre,
    “I am perfect in beauty.(D)
Your domain was on the high seas;
    your builders brought your beauty to perfection.(E)
They made all your timbers
    of juniper from Senir[a];(F)
they took a cedar from Lebanon(G)
    to make a mast for you.
Of oaks(H) from Bashan
    they made your oars;
of cypress wood[b] from the coasts of Cyprus(I)
    they made your deck, adorned with ivory.
Fine embroidered linen(J) from Egypt was your sail
    and served as your banner;
your awnings were of blue and purple(K)
    from the coasts of Elishah.(L)
Men of Sidon and Arvad(M) were your oarsmen;
    your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors.(N)
Veteran craftsmen of Byblos(O) were on board
    as shipwrights to caulk your seams.
All the ships of the sea(P) and their sailors
    came alongside to trade for your wares.

10 “‘Men of Persia,(Q) Lydia(R) and Put(S)
    served as soldiers in your army.
They hung their shields(T) and helmets on your walls,
    bringing you splendor.
11 Men of Arvad and Helek
    guarded your walls on every side;
men of Gammad
    were in your towers.
They hung their shields around your walls;
    they brought your beauty to perfection.(U)

12 “‘Tarshish(V) did business with you because of your great wealth of goods;(W) they exchanged silver, iron, tin and lead for your merchandise.

13 “‘Greece,(X) Tubal and Meshek(Y) did business with you; they traded human beings(Z) and articles of bronze for your wares.

14 “‘Men of Beth Togarmah(AA) exchanged chariot horses, cavalry horses and mules for your merchandise.

15 “‘The men of Rhodes[c](AB) traded with you, and many coastlands(AC) were your customers; they paid you with ivory(AD) tusks and ebony.

16 “‘Aram[d](AE) did business with you because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise,(AF) purple fabric, embroidered work, fine linen,(AG) coral(AH) and rubies for your merchandise.

17 “‘Judah and Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat(AI) from Minnith(AJ) and confections,[e] honey, olive oil and balm(AK) for your wares.(AL)

18 “‘Damascus(AM) did business with you because of your many products and great wealth of goods.(AN) They offered wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar 19 and casks of wine from Izal(AO) in exchange for your wares: wrought iron, cassia(AP) and calamus.

20 “‘Dedan(AQ) traded in saddle blankets with you.

21 “‘Arabia(AR) and all the princes of Kedar(AS) were your customers; they did business with you in lambs, rams and goats.

22 “‘The merchants of Sheba(AT) and Raamah traded with you; for your merchandise they exchanged the finest of all kinds of spices(AU) and precious stones, and gold.(AV)

23 “‘Harran,(AW) Kanneh and Eden(AX) and merchants of Sheba, Ashur(AY) and Kilmad traded with you. 24 In your marketplace they traded with you beautiful garments, blue fabric, embroidered work and multicolored rugs with cords twisted and tightly knotted.

25 “‘The ships of Tarshish(AZ) serve
    as carriers for your wares.
You are filled with heavy cargo
    as you sail the sea.(BA)
26 Your oarsmen take you
    out to the high seas.
But the east wind(BB) will break you to pieces
    far out at sea.
27 Your wealth,(BC) merchandise and wares,
    your mariners, sailors and shipwrights,
your merchants and all your soldiers,
    and everyone else on board
will sink into the heart of the sea(BD)
    on the day of your shipwreck.
28 The shorelands will quake(BE)
    when your sailors cry out.
29 All who handle the oars
    will abandon their ships;
the mariners and all the sailors
    will stand on the shore.
30 They will raise their voice
    and cry bitterly over you;
they will sprinkle dust(BF) on their heads
    and roll(BG) in ashes.(BH)
31 They will shave their heads(BI) because of you
    and will put on sackcloth.
They will weep(BJ) over you with anguish of soul
    and with bitter mourning.(BK)
32 As they wail and mourn over you,
    they will take up a lament(BL) concerning you:
“Who was ever silenced like Tyre,
    surrounded by the sea?(BM)
33 When your merchandise went out on the seas,(BN)
    you satisfied many nations;
with your great wealth(BO) and your wares
    you enriched the kings of the earth.
34 Now you are shattered by the sea
    in the depths of the waters;
your wares and all your company
    have gone down with you.(BP)
35 All who live in the coastlands(BQ)
    are appalled(BR) at you;
their kings shudder with horror
    and their faces are distorted with fear.(BS)
36 The merchants among the nations scoff at you;(BT)
    you have come to a horrible end
    and will be no more.(BU)’”

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:5 That is, Mount Hermon
  2. Ezekiel 27:6 Targum; the Masoretic Text has a different division of the consonants.
  3. Ezekiel 27:15 Septuagint; Hebrew Dedan
  4. Ezekiel 27:16 Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac Edom
  5. Ezekiel 27:17 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.