Fall of Tyrus threatened.

14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets 123.3, upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I m the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord God. 15 T Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shalle not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?

n

built.

f De.3.9.

2.11.2 Zec.11.2

h or, they

have

made thy

hatches of ivory well trod den.

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 P trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonish-kor, purple ed 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!

V

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.

HE word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

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

daughters. Je.2.10.

lel.

scar

1 P.83.7.

m strengthenere, or, stoppers

of chinks. c.38.5.

o Je. 16.9.

P 2Ch.20.36 q Ge. 10.2, &c.

Re.18.13

s or, merchandise.

c.38.6.

u 1 Ki.10.22.

thy works

w chrysoprase.

15.9,

Ezr.3.7.
Ac. 12. M.

Jul.33

z or, rosin. a Je.8.22. bor, Meural.

Ge.25.3.

d clothes of freedom.

e

Ge 25.13.

Is.60.7.

f were the merchants

The rich supply of Tyrus

3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situ ate at the entry of the sea, which art a mer chant 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 off 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 i 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 Elishali was that which covered thee.

k

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 m calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.

n

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 P 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 thy 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 w 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 a 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.

of thy
hand.

g Ge. 10.7. IKI.10.1,2

15.
Is. 60.6.

h Ge.11.31.

2Ki. 19.12.

i or, excel

The great fall of Tyrus.

25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and 1 P.48.7. 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.

n Pr.11.4.

o or, even with.

19.

r Je.6.26. Jo.3.6.

27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchan-por,waves. dise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, a Re. 189, 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 P 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 a bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

B

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.

u

8 Mi. 1.16.

t Es.4.1..4. u ver.27. c.28.16.

v Je. 18.16.

w terrors.

x c.2.2.

The judgment of Zidon. 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 m 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.

n

y shall not

a Hab.2.4. b heart.

c 18.31.3.

d 2Th.24. e Zec. 9.2,3.

f Dr.5.11,

12.

g the greatness of thy wisdom.

h Ps. 62.10.

P1123

Ja.1.11.

30.11.

31.12. 32.12.

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 k ver.2. 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 w a * terror, and never shalt be any more.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

1 God's judgment upon the prince of Tyrus for his sacrilegious pride. 11 A lamentation of his great glory corrupted by sin. 20 The judgment of Zidon. 21 The restoration of Israel.

2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GoD; Because thy heart is lifted a 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 thy heart as the heart of w Mr.8.36. 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 traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD; Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God;

7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee the terrible of the nations: and

Ro.1.22.

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.

V

17 Thy 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.

W

18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; 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. 20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

y

x terrors.

Je 25.22.
27.3.
c.32.30.

c.39.3,13.

a Ex.14.4, 17.

b Pa.9.16.

© c.38.22.

d Nu.33.55. Jos. 23.13 I. 35.9. 55.13. Re. 21.4.

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.

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

The judgment of Pharaoh,

е

B. C. 588.

e Is.11.12,13

c.36.23,28. g Je.23.6. h Ge.28.13,

and desolation of Egypt

16 And it shall be no more the confidence o. the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

i

14.

or, with

confidence. 65.21.

k or, spoil.

1 La. 1.8.

A. M. 3415.
B. C. 589.

a c. 28.21,22

b Je.25.19. 44.30.

C. Is. c. 19. Je. c. 46. c.32

P.74.13,

Is. 27.1.
51.9.

e Da.4.30,31.

2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh b king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, 18.37.29. and against all Egypt:

d

c. 38.4.

g face of the field.

i Je.31.20.
j 2Ki. 18.21.

k Is.30.2..7.
Je.37.5,
&c.

1 Je.2.36.

in ver.3.

30.12

Hab.3.8.

o wastes of waste.

to Syene. Ex. 14.2. Je. 44.1.

q Seveneh.

3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Gon; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of h Je 25.33. Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. 4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. 5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wil-por, Migdol derness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gather-r c.30.6. ed: I have given thee for meat to the beasts I of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. - 7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand. 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man andast out of thee.

8 c.32.13.
t Is. 19.23.

u or, birth

v c. 17.14. Da. 11. 42, 43.

11 No foot of man shall pass through it, bor, fear. nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

c Phut. c. 27.10.

d Je.25.20, 21.

e children.

gor, Migdol to Syene.

h.29.10,12

i P58.11. 1 broken.

12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that Job 9.13. are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 13 Yet thus saith the Lord GoD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: 14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into them land of Pathros, into the land of their " habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom. 15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above he nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

17 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Gon; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.

20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his blabour where with he served against it, be cause they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD. 21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. 8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh. 10 Thus saith the Lord God; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

m

11 He and his people with him, the terrible " of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. 12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.

13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also de

Egypt shall be conquered.

stroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

B. C.

r Is. 19.1, &c Je. 43.12. 46.25.

Zec. 13.2

W

15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.

Pi

17 The young men of Aven and of beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

a

18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be b darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. 19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD; Behoid, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

e

23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.

26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

CHAPTER XXXI.

1 A relation unto Pharaoh, 3 of the glory of Assyria, 10 and the fall thereof for pride. 18 The like destruction of Egypt.

AN

u or, Tanis. v Ps. 78.12, 43.

8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like wor, Pelu- his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

sium.

x Na.3.8..10 y or, Heliopolis.

z or, Pubastum.

12 And strangers, the terrible P of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him : upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

14 To the end that none of all the trees by branches the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

e or,brought ( Je.51.36.

gor, conduim.

hor, it sent them forth.

i c.17.23.

Ge 28

13.10.
Is.51.3.

k c.16.14. Ma.23.12

m Da.5.20.

n in doing he shall

do unto.

o La.1.21, 22.

Na.3.18,

19.

P c.28.7.

35.5.

r Is. 18.6. 8 Da.4.32

themselves for.

4 The waters made him great, the deep

set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her tle rivers unto all the trees of the field.

lit

u Pa82.7. v c.32.18. w Re. 18.11. x be black. Mal.3. 14.

y 0.26.15.

z Is. 14.15.

a c.32.31.

La.4.20.

b ver.2. c.32.19.

e 2 Sa, 1.20. Je 9.25,26.

B. C. 567.

c.27.2 bc.19.3,6.

Ver. 16.

38.13.

e or dragon

c.29.3.

15 Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

18 T To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

B. C. 587.

fearful fall of Egypt.

d c.34.18.

e c. 12. 13. Ec. 9.12.

uncircumcised, slain by the sword. 22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen

g c.31.13. h Ex.7.17. Re. 16.6.

23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword,

h

5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.

k

7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make m dark over thee, and set darkness" upon thy land, saith the Lord God.

9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.

11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; "neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

swimming jor, extin guish thee

k Is. 13.10. Joel 3.15.

living.

24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, Mat 24.29 fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame J with them that go down to the pit.

1 light of the light in.

m them dark.

n Ex.10.21 ..23.

o provoke
to anger,
or, grief.

P c.27.35.
De.32.41.

r Je. 46.24..
26.

8 c. 28.7.
30.4.

1 Is.25.2,3. u c.29.11.

v desolate from the fuiness thereof.

w Ex.7.5. 14.4,18.

x ver.2

y 2 Sa. 1.17.

2Ch.35.25 ver.2.

a c.31.14.

b ver.21,24.

e or, the sword is laid.

11.31. e Is 14.9,10.

f Is. 14.15.

g 151.12,13

h or, diamaying.

&c.

Hab.2.16.

25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.

26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and ail her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

27 And m they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with " their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

1 Ge. 10.12. c.27.13. 38.2.

m Is.14.18, 19.

n weapons of their

war.

p c.25.12,

go down to the pit.

1 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord God.

32 For I have caused my "terror in the land P.927,9 of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

&c. Ob. 2, &c.

given, or,

put.

Je114

4.6. c.38.6,15. 39.2.

s c.29.21.

t c.31.15.

u Ge. 35.5. Job 31.23. 2 Co.5.11. a A land when I bring a sword

2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him upon her for their watchman :