Ezekiel 27:17-27

17 Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise ¹wheat of ²Minnith, meal, ^[a] honey, oil, and ³balm.

18 ⁴Damascus did business with you for your abundant goods, because of your great wealth of every kind; wine of Helbon and ⁵wool of Sahar

19 and casks of wine^[b] from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, ⁶cassia, and ⁷calamus were bartered for your merchandise.

20 Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.

21 Arabia and all the princes of ⁸Kedar were your favored dealers ⁹in lambs, rams, and goats; in these they did business with you.

22 The traders of ¹⁰Sheba and ¹¹Raamah traded with you; they exchanged ¹²for your wares ¹³the best of all kinds of spices and all precious stones and gold.

23 ¹⁴Haran, Canneh, ¹⁵Eden, traders of Sheba, ¹⁶Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.

24 In your market these traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of ¹⁷blue and ¹⁸embroidered work, and in carpets of colored material, bound with cords and made secure.

25 ¹⁹The ships of ²⁰Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise. So you were filled and heavily laden ²¹in the heart of the seas.

26 “Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. ²²The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

27 Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and ²³your pilots, ²⁴your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your crew that is in your midst, sink into the heart of the seas ²⁵on the day of your fall.

Ezekiel 27:17-27 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 27

This chapter contains a lamentation on Tyre; setting forth her former grandeur, riches, and commerce; her ruin and destruction; and the concern of others on that account. The prophet is bid to take up his lamentation concerning it, Eze 27:1,2, observing her situation and magnificence, of which she boasted, Eze 27:3,4, describing the excellency of her shipping and naval stores, Eze 27:5-7, declaring who were her mariners, pilots, and caulkers, Eze 27:8,9, her military men, Eze 27:10,11 her several merchants, and the things they traded in with her in her fairs and markets, Eze 27:12-25, then follows an account of her destruction, Eze 27:26,27, the lamentation of pilots and mariners because of it, Eze 27:28-32, and of the kings and inhabitants of the isles, and merchants of the people, Eze 27:33-36.

Cross References

• 1. 27:17 See 1 Kgs. 5:9, 11
• 2. 27:17 Judg. 11:33
• 3. 27:17 See Gen. 37:25
• 4. 27:18 Isa. 7:8; [ver. 16]
• 5. 27:18 Rev. 1:14
• 6. 27:19 Ex. 30:24
• 7. 27:19 [Ex. 30:23]
• 8. 27:21 Isa. 60:7
• 9. 27:21 Isa. 60:7
• 10. 27:22 ch. 38:13; Gen. 10:7
• 11. 27:22 ch. 38:13; Gen. 10:7
• 12. 27:22 ver. 12
• 13. 27:22 Ex. 30:23
• 14. 27:23 2 Kgs. 19:12
• 15. 27:23 2 Kgs. 19:12
• 16. 27:23 Gen. 10:22
• 17. 27:24 ver. 7
• 18. 27:24 ver. 7
• 19. 27:25 Ps. 48:7; Isa. 2:16; 23:14
• 20. 27:25 See ver. 12
• 21. 27:25 ver. 4
• 22. 27:26 See Jer. 18:17
• 23. 27:27 ver. 8
• 24. 27:27 ver. 9
• 25. 27:27 [ch. 26:18; 32:10]

Footnotes

• [a] 27:17 The meaning of the Hebrew word is unknown
• [b] 27:19 Probable reading; Hebrew 'wool of Sahar, Vedan, and Javan'