Ezekiel 27

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

“O Tyre, you have said,
    ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
⁴ Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
    your builders made perfect your beauty.
⁵ They made all your planks
    of fir trees from Senir;
they took a cedar from Lebanon
    to make a mast for you.
⁶ Of oaks of Bashan
    they made your oars;
they made your deck of pines
    from the coasts of Cyprus,
    inlaid with ivory.
⁷ Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt
    was your sail,
    serving as your ensign;
blue and purple from the coasts of Eli′shah
    was your awning.
⁸ The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad
    were your rowers;
skilled men of Zemer^[a] were in you,
    they were your pilots.
⁹ The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you,
    caulking your seams;
all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you,
    to barter for your wares.

“So you were filled and heavily laden
    in the heart of the seas.
²⁶ Your rowers have brought you out
    into the high seas.
The east wind has wrecked you
    in the heart of the seas.
²⁷ Your riches, your wares, your merchandise,
    your mariners and your pilots,
your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise,
    and all your men of war who are in you,
with all your company
    that is in your midst,
sink into the heart of the seas
    on the day of your ruin.
²⁸ At the sound of the cry of your pilots
    the countryside shakes,
²⁹ and down from their ships
    come all that handle the oar.
The mariners and all the pilots of the sea
    stand on the shore
³⁰ and wail aloud over you,
    and cry bitterly.
They cast dust on their heads
    and wallow in ashes;
³¹ they make themselves bald for you,
    and gird themselves with sackcloth,
and they weep over you in bitterness of soul,
    with bitter mourning.
³² In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you,
    and lament over you:
‘Who was ever destroyed^[j] like Tyre
    in the midst of the sea?
³³ When your wares came from the seas,
    you satisfied many peoples;
with your abundant wealth and merchandise
    you enriched the kings of the earth.
³⁴ Now you are wrecked by the seas,
    in the depths of the waters;
your merchandise and all your crew
    have sunk with you.
³⁵ All the inhabitants of the coastlands
    are appalled at you;
and their kings are horribly afraid,
    their faces are convulsed.
³⁶ The merchants among the peoples hiss at you;
    you have come to a dreadful end
    and shall be no more for ever.’”