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The rich supply of Tyrus.

Before CHRIST 589.

EZEKIEL.

7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth Or, purple to be thy sail; blue and purple from the and scarlet. isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.

g1 Kings 5. 18. Ps. 83.7.

Or, stoppers of chinks. + Heb. strengthen

ers.

8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.

9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.

10 They of Persia and of Lud and of h Jer. 45. g. Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.

ch. 30. 5. & 38.5.

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11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made 1thy beauty perfect.

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

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1 Gen. 10. 2. 15 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

13.

Or, mer. chandise.

Gen. 10.3. ch. 38. 6.

e Gen. 10. 7.

works.

14 They of the house of "Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.

16 Syria was thy merchant by reason Heb. thy of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and tagate.

↑ Heb. chrysoprase.

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17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and ' || balm.

18 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for

1 Or, rosin. the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

Or, Mental.

19 Dan also and Javan ||going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. 20 'Dedan was thy merchant in preclothes of cious clothes for chariots.

s Gen. 25.3. + Hab.

freedom.

t Gen. 25. 13. Isai. 60.7.

were the

merchants of thy hand.

n Gea. 10.7.

1 Kings 10.

10, 15. laai.

21 Arabia, and all the princes of t Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.

22 The merchants of "Sheba and Ra1.2. P. 72. amah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

60. 6.

The destruction, &c. of Tyrus.

23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.

24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue † clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.

25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

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27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, 18.9. thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company with all which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of Hebert, thy ruin.

28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;

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31 And they shall make themselves & utterly bald for thee, and gird them with Mic. 1. 16 sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

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Against the prince of Tyrus.

Before CHRIST 588.

a ver. 9.

THE

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Before CHRIST 588.

THE word of the LORD came again | therefore I will cast thee as profane out of
unto me, saying,
the mountain of God: and I will destroy
thee, O covering cherub, from the midst p ver. 14.
of the stones of fire.

2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of ch. 27.3.4 God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

+ Heb.heart. e Isai. 31.3.

Zech. 9. 2.

+ Heb. By the great

of thy P 62. 10. Zech. 9. 3.

wisdom.

& 31. 12. & 3.2.12.

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4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers fch. 30. 11. upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

g ver. 2.

* Or, woundeth.

b ch. 31. 18.

25, 27.

8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

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9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that || slayeth thee.

10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the 3219, 21, uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

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14 Thou art the anointed "cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou ch. 20.40. wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the

midst of the stones of fire.

15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned:

17 Thine heart was lifted up because 9 ver. 2, 5. of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

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21 Son of man, set thy face Zidon, and prophesy against it, 22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; "Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be 'sanctified in her. 23 For I will send into her pestilence, z ch. 38. 22. and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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24 And there shall be no more aa pricking brier unto the house of Israel, 13. nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord God.

25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

Isai, 11. 17.820. 41. 37.21.

12. ch. 11.

& 34.13. &

c ver. 22.

ch. 36. 28.

e Isai. 65 21.

26 And they shall dwell || safely there- d Jer. 23. 6. in, and shall build houses, and plant sor, with vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence. confidence, when I have executed judg- Amos 9. 14. ments upon all those that || despise them f Jer. 31.5. round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.

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| Or, spoil.

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The judgment of Pharaoh.

Before CHRIST 589.

a ch. 28. 21.

Jer. 25. 19.

28. 22.

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2 Son of man, set thy face against | minish them, that they shall no more T Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy rule over the nations. against him, and against all Egypt:

b Isai. 19. 1. 3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord & 46. 2, 25. GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh Ch. 430 king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which 14 Isa 27 hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

ver. 10.

d Ps. 74. 13,

1. & 51.9. ch. 32. 2.

e See ch. 28.

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4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, Isai. 37.29. and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

of the field.

5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of + Heb. face thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the topen fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: "I have given thee Jer. 7. 33. for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.

K Jer. 8. 2. & 16. 4. & 25.33

& 34. 20.

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7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

8¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring 1a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.

10 Behold, therefore I am against thee,

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18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king ch. 26, of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her He spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be and prayer the wages for his army.

20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he "served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.

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21 In that day will I cause the horn x of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth y cb. 4. in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it Zep shall be the time of the heathen.

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4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great || pain shall be in Ethi-10t, fear. opia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and ech.** her foundations shall be broken down. 5 Ethiopia, and +Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

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ch. 17. 14.

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children.

6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: 'from the or tower of Syene shall they fall in it by S the sword, saith the Lord God.

7 And they shall be desolate in the ch midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and

and her helpers.

Before CHRIST

572.

+ Heb. broken.

h Isai, 18, 1,

2.

i ch. 29. 19.

k ch. 28.7.

1 Isat. 19.5, 6. + Hub. drought.

h

CHAP. XXXI.

when all her helpers shall be + destroyed.
9 In that day shall messengers go forth
from me in ships to make the careless
Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall
come upon them, as in the day of Egypt:
for, lo, it cometh.

10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will
also make the multitude of Egypt to cease
by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon.

11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

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12 And 'I will make the rivers + dry, and sell the land into the hand of the In Isai. 19.4. wicked: and I will make the land waste, + Heb. the and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.

fulness there

of.

Isai, 19.1.

Jer. 43. 12. & 46. 25. Zech. 13.2.

11.

Zech. 10.

p Isai. 19. 16.

q ch. 29. 14.

* Ps. 78. 12,

43.

Or, Tanis.

Nah. 3.8, 9, 10.

13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also "destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; ° and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: Pand I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in '|| Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.

15 And I will pour my fury upon || Sin, Or, Pelu the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off Jer. 46. 25. the multitude of No.

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18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be || darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

20 ¶ And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

21 Son of man, I have broken the arm * Jer. 46. 11. of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo," it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

22 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Ea Ps. 37. 17. gypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. 23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

fo ver. 26. cb. 29. 12.

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A relation of the glory of Assyria.
24 And I will strengthen the arms of
the king of Babylon, and put my sword
in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's
arms, and he shall groan before him with
the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

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25 But I will strengthen the arms of
the king of Babylon, and the arms of
Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall Ps. 9. 16.
know that I am the LORD, when I shall
put my sword into the hand of the king
of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out
upon the land of Egypt.

d ver. 23.

26 And I will scatter the Egyptians 12.
among the nations, and disperse them
among the countries; and they shall
know that I am the LORD.

CHAP. XXXI.

14 relation unto Pharaoh, 3 of the glory of
Assyria, 10 and the fall thereof for pride.
18 The like destruction of Egypt.

AND it came to pass in the eleventh

year, in the third month, in the first
day of the month, that the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and to his multitude;
Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in
Lebanon + with fair branches, and with a
shadowing shroud, and of an high stature;
and his top was among the thick boughs.

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6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches Dau. 4. 12. did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

& 13. 10.

Gen. 2. 8. ch. 28. 13.

10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; up his top among Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted & Dan. 5. 20. up in his height;

11 I have therefore delivered him into

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the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; the shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. 12 And strangers, "the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left h ch. 28.7. him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have

i ch. 32.5. & 35.8.

k Isai. 18. 6.

ch. 32. 4

left him.

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13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees || stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the m ch. 32. 18. earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

Or, stand supon themselves for their height. I Ps. 82. 7.

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Destruction of Egypt

rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

d

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3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will a ch.34.1. therefore spread out my net over theech. 12. 13. with a company of many people; and Ho7.12 they shall bring thee up in my net.

& 17.20.

4 Then will I leave thee upon the fch. 29.5. land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the ch.31. 13. heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.

5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the h ch. 31.12. mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

6 I will also water with thy blood || the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.

7 And when I shall put thee out, 'I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Or, the
ring.

land of thy

Or, extin

guish

i Isai. 13. 10.

Joel 1.
Rev.

3.15. Amos 12, 13. Matt. 24. 29.

+ Heb fight

of the ligh

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8 All the bright lights of heaven will make † dark over thee, and set dark- in heaven. ness upon thy land, saith the Lord God. 9 I will also †vex the hearts of many ↑ people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

15 Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave II caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: Heh, to be and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

Kack.

n eh. 26. 15.

16 I made the nations to "shake at Isai. 14. 15. the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into Isai. 14.8. the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink ch. 32. 31. water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that Lam. 4. 20. dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

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ch. 27- 35

10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and1they 1 c 2 16 shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.

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11 ¶ For thus saith the Lord God; cir The sword of the king of Babylon shall a come upon thee.

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12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, "the terrible ch of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble Pck 15. them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God.

15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell the

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AND it came to pass in the twelfth therein, then shall they know that I am q

year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto ch. 19.3,6. him, Thou art like a young lion of the ch. 29. 3. nations, and thou art as a || whale in the Or,dragon seas and thou camest forth with thy

& 38. 13.

the LORD.

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r ver. 2.

16 This is the 'lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of m the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month,

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