Ezekiel 27:2

2 "And you, son of man, raise a lament against Tyre.

Ezekiel 27:2 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 27:2

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 funerals, in which they said all they could in praise of the dead, and made very doleful lamentations for them: this the prophet was to do in a prophetic manner, for the confirmation of what was prophesied of by him; and it may teach us, that even wicked men are to be pitied, when in distress and calamity.

Ezekiel 27:2 In-Context

1 And the word of Yahweh {came} to me, {saying},

2 "And you, son of man, raise a lament against Tyre.

3 And you must say to Tyre, the one who sits at [the] entrance of the sea [as] the merchant of the peoples to the many coastlands, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Tyre, {you yourself said} "I [am] perfect {in beauty}!"

4 In [the] heart of [the] seas [are] your boundaries; your builders perfected your beauty.

5 They built [with] pine trees from Senir all of your boards for you; they took cedars from Lebanon to make a sailing mast {for you}.

Footnotes

• [a] Or "mortal," or "son of humankind"