Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"And you, son of man, raise a lament against Tyre.
New American Standard Bible
“And you, son of man,
King James Version
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
Holman Bible
“Now, son of man, lament for Tyre.
International Standard Version
"Son of Man, compose a mourning song for Tyre.
A Conservative Version
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre,
American Standard Version
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
Amplified
“Now you, son of man, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for Tyre,
Bible in Basic English
And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;
Darby Translation
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,
Julia Smith Translation
Thou son of man, lift up a lamentation for Tyre;
King James 2000
Now, you son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;
Modern King James verseion
And you, son of man, take up a mourning for Tyre.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"O thou son of man, make a lamentable complaint upon Tyre,
NET Bible
"You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre.
New Heart English Bible
"You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
The Emphasized Bible
Thou, therefore, son of man, Take up over Tyre a dirge;
Webster
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;
World English Bible
You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
Youngs Literal Translation
'And thou, son of man, lift up concerning Tyre a lamentation, and thou hast said to Tyre:
Interlinear
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 27:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Lament For Doomed Tyre
1 And the word of Yahweh {came} to me, {saying}, 2 "And you, son of man, raise a lament against Tyre. 3 And you must say to Tyre, the one who sits at [the] entrance of the sea [as] the merchant of the peoples to the many coastlands, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Tyre, {you yourself said} "I [am] perfect {in beauty}!"
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:10
For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, and for [the] pastures of [the] desert a lament, because they are laid waste so that no man passes through. And [the] sounds of cattle are not heard, from [the] birds of heaven to [the] animals they have fled, they are gone.
Jeremiah 9:17-20
Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Consider closely, and call for the wailing women, so that they come, and for the skillful women, so that they come.
Ezekiel 19:1
"And you, raise a lament about the leaders of Israel,
Ezekiel 28:12
"Son of man, raise a lament over the king of Tyre, and you must say to him, 'thus says the Lord Yahweh: "You were a perfect model of an example, full of wisdom and perfect of beauty.
Jeremiah 7:20
{Therefore} thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Look, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on the humankind, and on the animal, and on the tree of the field, and on the fruit of the ground, and it will not be extinguished."
Ezekiel 26:17
And they will raise a lament over you, and they will say to you, 'How you have been lost [who was] inhabited from [the] seas; the city that was praised, that was strong. It [is] [located] on the sea, and its inhabitants imposed their terror {on all of its inhabitants}.
Ezekiel 27:32
And they will raise over you with their wailing a lament, and they will chant a lament over you: 'Who is like Tyre, like [this] destruction in the midst of the sea?'
Ezekiel 32:2
"Son of man, raise a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and you must say to him, '[With] a fierce, strong lion among nations you compared yourself, and you [are] like the sea monster in the seas, and you thrash about in your rivers, and you make water turbid with your feet, and you make your rivers muddy.
Amos 5:1
Hear this word that I [am] going to intone over you [as] a lament, O house of Israel!
Amos 5:16
Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, my Lord, "In all [of] the public squares [there will be] wailing, and in all [of] the streets [they will say], 'Alas, alas, alas!' They shall call [the] farmers to mourning and [to] wailing, to those who are skilled [in] lamentation.