Ezekiel 27:31-36
The Message
26-32 “‘Your sailors row mightily,
taking you into the high seas.
Then a storm out of the east
shatters your ship in the ocean deep.
Everything sinks—your rich goods and products,
sailors and crew, ship’s carpenters and soldiers,
Sink to the bottom of the sea.
Total shipwreck.
The cries of your sailors
reverberate on shore.
Sailors everywhere abandon ship.
Veteran seamen swim for dry land.
They cry out in grief,
a choir of bitter lament over you.
They smear their faces with ashes,
shave their heads,
Wear rough burlap,
wildly keening their loss.
They raise their funeral song:
“Who on the high seas is like Tyre!”
33-36 “‘As you crisscrossed the seas with your products,
you satisfied many peoples.
Your worldwide trade
made earth’s kings rich.
And now you’re battered to bits by the waves,
sunk to the bottom of the sea,
And everything you’ve bought and sold
has sunk to the bottom with you.
Everyone on shore looks on in terror.
The hair of kings stands on end,
their faces drawn and haggard!
The buyers and sellers of the world
throw up their hands:
This horror can’t happen!
Oh, this has happened!’”
Ezekiel 27:31-33
New International Version
31 They will shave their heads(A) because of you
and will put on sackcloth.
They will weep(B) over you with anguish of soul
and with bitter mourning.(C)
32 As they wail and mourn over you,
they will take up a lament(D) concerning you:
“Who was ever silenced like Tyre,
surrounded by the sea?(E)”
33 When your merchandise went out on the seas,(F)
you satisfied many nations;
with your great wealth(G) and your wares
you enriched the kings of the earth.
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