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Ezekiel 27 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Eze 27:1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 27:2And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation against Sor;
Eze 27:3and thou shalt say to Sor that dwells at the entrance of the sea, to the mart of the nations coming from many islands, Thus saith the Lord to Sor; Thou hast said, I have clothed myself with my beauty.
Eze 27:4In the heart of the sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim.
Eze 27:5Cedar in Senir was employed for thee in building: boards of cypress timber were taken out of Libanus, and wood to make thee masts of fir.
Eze 27:6They made thine oars of wood out of the land of Basan; thy sacred utensils they made of ivory, thy shady houses of wood from the isles of Chetiim.
Eze 27:7Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied thy couch, to put honour upon thee, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the isles of Elisai; and they became thy coverings.
Eze 27:8And thy princes were the dwellers in Sidon, and the Aradians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Sor, who were in thee, these were thy pilots.
Eze 27:9The elders of the Biblians, and their wise men, who were in thee, these helped thy counsel: and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for thee to the utmost west.
Eze 27:10Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army: thy warriors hung in thee shields and helmets; these gave thee thy glory.
Eze 27:11The sons of the Aradians and thine army were upon thy walls; there were guards in thy towers: they hung their quivers on thy battlements round about; these completed thy beauty.
Eze 27:12The Carthaginians were thy merchants because of the abundance of all thy strength; they furnished thy market with silver, and gold, and iron, and tin, and lead.
Eze 27:13Greece, both the whole world, and the adjacent coasts, these traded with thee in the persons of men, and they gave as thy merchandise vessels of brass.
Eze 27:14Out of the house of Thogarma horses and horsemen furnished thy market.
Eze 27:15The sons of the Rhodians were thy merchants; from the islands they multiplied thy merchandise, even elephants' teeth: and to them that came in thou didst return thy prices,
Eze 27:16 even men as thy merchandise, from the multitude of thy trading population, myrrh and embroidered works from Tharsis: Ramoth also and Chorchor furnished thy market.
Eze 27:17Juda and the children of Israel, these were thy merchants; in the sale of corn and ointments and cassia: and they gave the best honey, and oil, and resin, to thy trading population.
Eze 27:18 The people of Damascus were thy merchants by reason of the abundance of all thy power; wine out of Chelbon, and wool from Miletus; and they brought wine into thy market.
Eze 27:19Out of Asel came wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels among thy trading population.
Eze 27:20 The people of Dædan were thy merchants, with choice cattle for chariots.
Eze 27:21Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, these were thy traders with thee, bringing camels, and lambs, and rams, in which they trade with thee.
Eze 27:22The merchants of Sabba and Ramma, these were thy merchants, with choice spices, and precious stones: and they brought gold to thy market.
Eze 27:23Charra, and Chanaa, these were thy merchants: Assur, and Charman, were thy merchants:
Eze 27:24bringing for merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords, and cypress wood.
Eze 27:25Ships were thy merchants, in abundance, with thy trading population: and thou wast filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea.
Eze 27:26Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind has broken thee in the heart of the sea.
Eze 27:27Thy forces, and thy gain, and that of thy traders, and thy rowers, and thy pilots, and thy counsellors, and they that traffic with thee, and all thy warriors that are in thee: and all thy company in the midst of thee shall perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of thy fall.
Eze 27:28At the cry of thy voice thy pilots shall be greatly terrified.
Eze 27:29And all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land.
Eze 27:30And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.
Eze 27:32And their sons shall take up a lament for thee, even a lamentation for Sor, saying,
Eze 27:33How large a reward hast thou gained from the sea? thou hast filled nations out of thine abundance; and out of thy mixed merchandise thou hast enriched all the kings of the earth.
Eze 27:34Now art thou broken in the sea, thy traders are in the deep water, and all thy company in the midst of thee: all thy rowers have fallen.
Eze 27:35All the dwellers in the islands have mourned over thee, and their kings have been utterly amazed, and their countenance has wept.
Eze 27:36Merchants from the nations have hissed at thee; thou art utterly destroyed, and shalt not be any more for ever.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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