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Verse Ezekiel 27:4. _THY BUILDERS HAVE PERFECTED THY BEAUTY._] Under
the allegory of a _beautiful ship_, the prophet, here and in the
following verses, paints the glory of this ancient city. _Horace_...
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Ezekiel 27:1. Ezekiel 27:1 give an interesting description of the
world-wide commerce and glory of this proud world city. “Sic transit
gloria mundi,” thus passeth the glory of the world! Of the proud...
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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_) rema...
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BUILDERS. sons. Compare Iea. 62. c....
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_borders … midst of the seas_ lit. _heart_of the seas, a phrase
which appears to mean not "far out at sea," but, in the deep waters of
the sea, ch. Ezekiel 28:2; Ezekiel 28:8; Exodus 15:8;...
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II. THE LAMENTATION OVER TYRE 27:1-36
Chapter 27 consists of an allegorical dirge song artistically
interrupted by a prose section. Tyre is pictured as a beautiful ship
superbly fitted out and manned...
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A. The Ship Prepared for Sailing 27:1-11
TRANSLATION
(1) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (2) NOW as for you,
son of man, take Up a lamentation over Tyre, (3) and say to Tyre, who
dwell...
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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 Ezeki...
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EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD”
GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS
EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 27
A FUNERAL SONG FOR TYRE – EZEKIEL 27:1-11
V1 The
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בְּ לֵ֥ב יַמִּ֖ים גְּבוּלָ֑יִךְ
בֹּנַ֕יִךְ כָּלְל֖וּ...
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TYRE (CONTINUED): SIDON
Ezekiel 27:1; Ezekiel 28:1
THE remaining oracles on Tyre (Chapter s 27, Ezekiel 28:1) are
somewhat different both in subject and mode of treatment from the
chapter we have jus...
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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,...
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_Neighbours of Sidon, Josue xix. 29. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "thy
children." Protestants, "thy builders." (Haydock) --- The description
of the Tyrian grandeur, shews their more woeful ruin. (Worthing...
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I have not interrupted the reading of the whole Chapter, for from the
beginning to the close of the Chapter, it is but one and the same
subject. The riches, trade, and commerce of Tyrus, fills the who...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 26, 27, AND 28.
Although in a certain sense upon Israel's territory, Tyre has another
character, and is the subject of a separate prophecy (chaps. 26-28),
bec...
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THY BORDERS ARE IN THE MIDST OF THE SEAS, Fixed by the Lord himself,
and which could never be removed. Tyre stood about half a mile from
the continent, surrounded with the waters of the sea, till it w...
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Thy borders [are] in the midst of the seas, thy builders have
perfected thy beauty.
Ver. 4. _Thy borders are in the midst of the sea._] Wherewith thou art
compassed and crowned, as it were, Isa 23:8...
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_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
deceas...
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Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, literally, "in the heart of
the sea," for it was this which surrounded the island metropolis; THY
BUILDERS HAVE PERFECTED THY BEAUTY. The picture gradually ch...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE GLORY AND MIGHT OF TYRE...
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MIDST:
_ Heb._ heart...
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1-25 Those who live at ease are to be lamented, if they are not
prepared for trouble. Let none reckon themselves beautified, any
further than they are sanctified. The account of the trade of Tyre
int...
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Weak borders, which an enemy easily breaks through, are a great defect
in a state; well, Tyre, thou art well secured here, thine are in the
sea that surrounds and secureth thee. THY BUILDERS; thy firs...
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Ezekiel 27:4 borders H1366 midst H3820 seas H3220 builders H1129
(H8802) perfected H3634 (H8804) beauty H3308...
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‘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...
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CONTENTS: Lamentation for Tyre.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel.
CONCLUSION: God takes notice of the vain conceits men have of
themselves in their prosperity. When they pride themselves on pomp and
pleasur...
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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 district...
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_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 be w...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 27:1 This second installment of the prophecy
against TYRE is both simple and complex. It follows a simple story
line, in the form of a lament, but the language and technical de...
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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 arch...
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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 reminds us of t...
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So the word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Now, thou son of
man, take up a lamentation (Ezekiel 27:1-2)
This is a wailing, a cry for Tyrus. This is lamenting the destruction
that is come.
An...
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Ezekiel 26:5...