“ Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; ”
Ezekiel 27. The Dirge over Tyre. The interest of the brilliant poem that follows is greatly enhanced by the description of the commerce of Tyre in a passage ( Ezekiel 27:9 b - Ezekiel 27:25 a...
son of man . See note on Ezekiel 2:1 , Tyrus. See note on Ezekiel 26:2 .
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; Take up a lamentation for Tyrus - This is a singular and curious chapter. It gives a very circumstantial account of the trade of Tyre with diffe...
Take up a lamentation, &c.— This alludes to the melancholy songs used at funerals, concerning which we spoke in our comment on the Lamentations; and wherein the women recounted every thing whic...
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; Take up a lamentation - a funeral dirge, eulogizing her great attributes, to make the contrast the greater between her former and her la...
The Wreck of the gallant Ship Under the figure of a ship, splendidly equipped, fully manned, and richly laden, but steered into stormy waters and wrecked, Ezekiel describes the fall of Tyre. In E...
TYRE (CONTINUED): SIDON Ezekiel 27:1-36 ; Ezekiel 28:1-26 THE remaining oracles on Tyre (Chapter s 27, Ezekiel 28:1-19 ) are somewhat different both in subject and mode of treatment from the...
At the command of Jehovah, Ezekiel then took up a lamentation for Tyre. This took the form of a pictorial representation of her as a gallant ship trafficking among the nations and ultimately wrecked,...
It was said in the preceding Chapter, ( Ezekiel 26:6 ), that Tyrus should know by the Lord's judgments, that He was the Lord. In this Chapter, the Lord commands his servant to put Tyrus in mind of he...
THE DIRGE OF TYRE ‘A lamentation for Cyrus.’ Ezekiel 27:2 I. This is a funeral dirge over Tyre. —She is compared to a vast ship, for the construction and manning of which all nations are la...
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus. Compose an elegy, and sing it; make a mournful noise, and deliver out a funeral ditty; such as the "praeficae", or mournful women, made at fun...
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; Ver. 2. Take up a lamentation for Tyrus. ] Fitly here compared to a goodly ship, a and her desolation to a dismal shipwreck. Theodoret's no...
Take up a lamentation for Tyrus This alludes to the mournful lamentations used at funerals, wherein the mourning women recounted every thing that was valuable or praiseworthy belonging to the decea...
The Prosperity of Tyre. B. C. 588. 1 The word of the L ORD came again unto me, saying,...
Pen a mournful narrative of Tyre's fall, tell the world what she was, and what she is come to; both city and citizens too.
‘The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying, “And you, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre. And say to Tyre: “You, O Tyre, have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty. Your borders are in the heart...
TYRE’S FORMER GREATNESS, SUGGESTING A LAMENTATION OVER HER SAD DOWNFALL (Chap. 27) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“The lamentation commences with a picture of the glory of the city of Tyre, its situation, its ar...
Ezekiel 27:6 . The isles of Chittim. Cilicia, Cyprus, Macedonia, the Greek islands, or Apulia on the shores of Italy. Thus critics take the word in a general sense. Ezekiel 27:9 . Gebal, a dis...
Take up a lamentation for Tyrus. A proud city The men of the world are wise, choosing the fittest places for their own advantage and interest. Let us learn so much of the men of the world, to b...
EXPOSITION Ezekiel 27:2 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 rem...
Description of the Glory and Might of Tyre
Amos 5:1 ; Amos 5:16 ; Ezekiel 19:1 ; Ezekiel 26:17 ; Ezekiel 27:32 ; Ezekiel 28:12 ; Ezekiel 32:2 ; Jeremiah 7:20 ; Jeremiah 9:10 ; Jeremiah 9:17-20
A lamentation — We ought to mourn for the miseries of other nations, as well as of our own, out of an affection for mankind in general; yea, tho' they have brought them upon themselves.