Ezekiel 27:3

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Summary

And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.

O thou

A merchant

Ezekiel 27:12

Isaiah 23:3

Revelation 18:3

I am

Bible References

O thou

In the heart of the seas are thy border; thy builders have completed thy beauty.

And they shall take up a lamentation for thee and say to thee, How didst thou perish, that wast inhabited in the seas? The renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all those that dwell therein.

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thy heart has lifted thee up and thou hast said, I am God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas (yet thou art man, and not God); and thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God:

Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou mart of Zidon, that by passing over the sea thou wert replenished.

A merchant

Tarshish was thy market by reason of the multitude of all thy riches in silver, iron, tin, and lead; they traded in thy fairs.

Her provision was from the plantings that grow with the many waters of the Nile, of the harvest of the river. She was also the mart of the Gentiles.

For all the Gentiles have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the power of her delicacies.

I am

In the heart of the seas are thy border; thy builders have completed thy beauty.

Son of man, raise up lamentations upon the king of Tyre and say unto him, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Thou dost seal up the sum of perfection, full of wisdom, and completed in beauty.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined forth.

The LORD of the hosts has purposed it to stain the pride of all glory and to bring down all those who are exalted in the earth.