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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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SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1,
TYRUS. See note on Ezekiel 26:2....
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Ezekiel 27:1. Tyre as a gallant ship
2. For the phrase "take up a lamentation" cf. Ezekiel 19:1; Ezekiel
26:17; Ezekiel 28:12;...
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TAKE UP A LAMENTATION, &C.— This alludes to the melancholy songs
used at funerals, concerning which we spoke in our comment on the
Lamentations; and wherein the women recounted every thing which was
v...
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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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Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
TAKE UP A LAMENTATION - a funeral dirge, eulogizing her great
attributes, to make the contrast the greater between her former and
her latter...
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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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וְ אַתָּ֣ה בֶן ־אָדָ֔ם שָׂ֥א עַל ־צֹ֖ר
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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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_Lamentation. Such canticles were usual, and very poetical._...
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It was said in the preceding Chapter, (Ezekiel 26:6), that Tyrus
should know by the Lord's judgments, that He was the Lord. In this
Chapter, the Lord commands his servant to put Tyrus in mind of her
p...
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_THE DIRGE OF TYRE_
‘A lamentation for Cyrus.’
Ezekiel 27:2
I. THIS IS A FUNERAL DIRGE OVER TYRE.—She is compared to a vast
ship, for the construction and manning of which all nations are laid
unde...
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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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NOW, THOU SON OF MAN, TAKE UP A LAMENTATION FOR TYRUS. Compose an
elegy, and sing it; make a mournful noise, and deliver out a funeral
ditty; such as the "praeficae", or mournful women, made at funera...
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Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
Ver. 2. _Take up a lamentation for Tyrus._] Fitly here compared to a
goodly ship, _a_ and her desolation to a dismal shipwreck. Theodoret's
note...
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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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Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation, a song of mourning or a
funeral dirge, FOR TYRUS,...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE GLORY AND MIGHT OF TYRE...
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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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Pen a mournful narrative of Tyre's fall, tell the world what she was,
and what she is come to; both city and citizens too....
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Ezekiel 27:2 son H1121 man H120 up H5375 (H8798) lamentation H7015
Tyre H6865
Ezekiel 27:32
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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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Amos 5:1; Amos 5:16; Ezekiel 19:1; Ezekiel 26:17; Ezekiel 27:32;...
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A lamentation — We ought to mourn for the miseries of other nations,
as well as of our own, out of an affection for mankind in general;
yea, tho' they have brought them upon themselves....