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17 And they will (A)raise a lamentation over you and say to you,

“‘How you have perished,
    you who were inhabited from the seas,
O city renowned,
    (B)who was mighty on the sea;
she and her inhabitants (C)imposed their terror
    on all her inhabitants!

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17 Then they will take up a lament(A) concerning you and say to you:

“‘How you are destroyed, city of renown,
    peopled by men of the sea!
You were a power on the seas,
    you and your citizens;
you put your terror
    on all who lived there.(B)

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“Now you, (A)son of man, (B)raise a lamentation over Tyre,

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“Son of man, take up a lament(A) concerning Tyre.

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32 In their wailing they (A)raise a lamentation for you
    and lament over you:
(B)‘Who is like Tyre,
    like one destroyed in the midst of the sea?

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32 As they wail and mourn over you,
    they will take up a lament(A) concerning you:
“Who was ever silenced like Tyre,
    surrounded by the sea?(B)

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12 (A)“Son of man, (B)raise a lamentation over (C)the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God:

“You were the signet of perfection,[a]
    (D)full of wisdom and (E)perfect in beauty.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 28:12 The meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain

12 “Son of man, take up a lament(A) concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘You were the seal of perfection,
    full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.(B)

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(A)“Son of man, (B)raise a lamentation over (C)Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

“You consider yourself (D)a lion of the nations,
    but you are like (E)a dragon (F)in the seas;
(G)you burst forth in your rivers,
    trouble the waters with your feet,
    and foul their rivers.

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“Son of man, take up a lament(A) concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

“‘You are like a lion(B) among the nations;
    you are like a monster(C) in the seas(D)
thrashing about in your streams,
    churning the water with your feet
    and muddying the streams.(E)

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Seek the Lord and Live

Hear this word that I (A)take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:

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A Lament and Call to Repentance

Hear this word, Israel, this lament(A) I take up concerning you:

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29 (A)“‘Cut off your hair and cast it away;
    raise a lamentation on (B)the bare heights,
for the Lord has rejected and forsaken
    the generation of his wrath.’

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29 “‘Cut off(A) your hair and throw it away; take up a lament(B) on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned(C) this generation that is under his wrath.

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