New International Version
Ezekiel 27:2
2“Son of man, take up a lament concerning Tyre.
Ezekiel 27:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Now, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Son of man, sing a funeral song for Tyre,
Context of Ezekiel 27:2
1The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, take up a lament concerning Tyre. 3Say to Tyre, situated at the gateway to the sea, merchant of peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘You say, Tyre, “I am perfect in beauty.” 4Your domain was on the high seas; your builders brought your beauty to perfection.
Read all of Ezekiel 27Ezekiel 27:2 word by word
וְאַתָּ֣ה בֶן־אָדָ֔ם שָׂ֥א עַל־צֹ֖ר קִינָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 27:2
- Ezekiel 27:32As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament concerning you: “Who was ever silenced like Tyre, surrounded by the sea?”
- Ezekiel 19:1“Take up a lament concerning the princes of Israel
- Ezekiel 26:17Then they will take up a lament concerning you and say to you: “ ‘How you are destroyed, city of renown, peopled by men of the sea! You were a power on the seas, you and your citizens; you put your terror on all who lived there.
- Ezekiel 28:12“Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
- Ezekiel 32:2“Son of man, take up a lament concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: “ ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas thrashing about in your streams, churning the water with your feet and muddying the streams.
- Jeremiah 7:20“ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.
- Jeremiah 9:10I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds have all fled and the animals are gone.
- Amos 5:1Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you:
Commentaries on Ezekiel 27:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Take up a lamentation for Tyrus - This is a singular and curious chapter. It gives a very circumstantial account of the trade of Tyre with different parts of the world, and the different sorts of merchandise in which she trafficked. The places and the imports are as regularly entered here as they could have been in a European custom-house.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-36The second part of the prophet’s message to Tyre (see study note on Ezekiel 26:1–28:19) is a funeral song. The song compares Tyre’s past glory with its present loss. It connects with the previous chapter in several ways. Both speak directly to Tyre. Both describe Tyre as a gateway and a center of trade (see Ezekiel 26:1–2). Both end with the same message: Tyre has come to a terrible end and will exist no more (compare Ezekiel 26:21).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-362. lamentation--a funeral dirge, eulogizing her great attributes, to make the contrast the greater between her former and her latter state.Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Ezekiel 27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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