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Ezekiel - ch 27 v 1 - 20
- And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
- Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre:
- And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect beauty,
- And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty:
- With fir trees of Sanir they have built thee with all sea planks: they have taken cedars from Libanus to make thee masts.
- They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they have made thee benches of Indian ivory and cabins with things brought from the islands of Italy.
- Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made thy covering.
- The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy rowers : thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots.
- The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.
- The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy ornament.
- The men of Arad were with thy army upon thy walls round about: the Pygmeans also that were in thy towers, hung up their quivers on thy walls round about: they perfected thy beauty.
- The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead.
- Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants: they brought to thy people slaves and vessels of brass.
- From the house of Thogorma they brought horses, and horsemen, and mules to thy market.
- The men of Dedan were thy merchants: many islands were the traffic of thy hand, they exchanged for thy price teeth of ivory and ebony.
- The Syrian was thy merchant: by reason of the multitude of thy works, they set forth precious stones, and purple, and broidered works, and fine linen, and silk, and chodchod in thy market.
- Juda and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants with the best corn: they set forth balm, and honey, and oil, and rosin in thy fairs.
- The men of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of thy works, in the multitude of divers riches, in rich wine, in wool of the best colour.
- Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.
- The men of Dedan were thy merchants in tapestry for seats.
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