Ezekiel 27:2
New International Version
“Son of man, take up a lament concerning Tyre.

New Living Translation
“Son of man, sing a funeral song for Tyre,

English Standard Version
“Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,

Berean Standard Bible
“Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.

King James Bible
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

New King James Version
“Now, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,

New American Standard Bible
“And you, son of man, take up a song of mourning over Tyre;

NASB 1995
“And you, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

NASB 1977
“And you, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

Legacy Standard Bible
“Now as for you, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre

Amplified Bible
“Now you, son of man, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for Tyre,

Christian Standard Bible
“Now, son of man, lament for Tyre.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now, son of man, lament for Tyre.

American Standard Version
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“But you, son of man, lament a lamentation over Tyre

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation against Sor;

Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, sing a funeral song for Tyre,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre:

English Revised Version
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Son of man, sing a funeral song about Tyre.

Good News Translation
"Mortal man, sing a funeral song for Tyre,

International Standard Version
"Son of Man, compose a mourning song for Tyre.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,

Literal Standard Version
“And you, son of man, lift up a lamentation concerning Tyre, and you have said to Tyre:

Majority Standard Bible
“Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.

New American Bible
You, son of man, raise a lament over Tyre,

NET Bible
"You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre.

New Revised Standard Version
Now you, mortal, raise a lamentation over Tyre,

New Heart English Bible
"You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

Webster's Bible Translation
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;

World English Bible
“You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

Young's Literal Translation
'And thou, son of man, lift up concerning Tyre a lamentation, and thou hast said to Tyre:

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
A Lament for Tyre
1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2“Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre. 3Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’…

Cross References
Jeremiah 9:10
I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.

Jeremiah 9:17
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

Ezekiel 26:17
Then they will lament for you, saying, "How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men--she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!

Ezekiel 27:1
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 27:32
As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: 'Who was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?

Ezekiel 28:12
"Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 32:2
"Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: 'You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.'


Treasury of Scripture

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

Ezekiel 27:32
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?

Ezekiel 19:1
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Ezekiel 26:17
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!

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Ezekiel 27
1. The riches and commerce of Tyrus
26. The great and irrecoverable fall thereof














Verse 2. - Take up a lamentation for Tyrus. The dirge over the merchant-city that follows, the doom sic transit gloria mundi, worked out with a fullness of detail which reminds us of the Homeric catalogue of ships ('Iliad,' 2:484-770), is almost, if not altogether, without a parallel in the history of literature. It can scarcely have rested on anything but personal knowledge. Ezekiel, we must believe, had, at some time or other in his life, trod the sinful streets of the great city, and noted the mingled crowd of many nations and in many costumes that he met there, just as we infer from Dante's vivid description of the dockyards of Venice ('Inf.,' 21:7-15) that he had visited that city. Apart from its poetic or prophetic interest, it is for us almost the locus classicus as to the geography and commerce of that old world of which Tyre was in some sense the center. We may compare it, from that point of view, with the ethnological statements in Genesis 10; just as, from the standpoint of prophecy, it has to be compared with Isaiah's "burden" against Babylon (Isaiah 13, 14.), and with St. John's representation of Rome as the spiritual Babylon of the Apocalypse (Revelation 18.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“Now you,
וְאַתָּ֣ה (wə·’at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

son
בֶן־ (ḇen-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of man,
אָדָ֔ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

take up
שָׂ֥א (śā)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

a lament
קִינָֽה׃ (qî·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7015: An elegy, dirge

for
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

Tyre.
צֹ֖ר (ṣōr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 6865: Tyre -- a Phoenician city


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