Yechezkel 27:2

2 Now, thou ben adam, take up a kinah (lamentation) for Tzor (Tyre);

Yechezkel 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.

Yechezkel 27:2 In-Context

1 7 The Davar Hashem came again unto me, saying,

2 Now, thou ben adam, take up a kinah (lamentation) for Tzor (Tyre);

3 And say unto Tzor (Tyre), O thou that dwell at the entrance of the yam, which art a merchant of the peoples for many coastlands, Thus saith Adonoi Hashem; O Tzor (Tyre), thou hast said, I am perfect in beauty.

4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy bonim (builders) have perfected thy beauty.

5 They have built all thy ship plank boards of beroshim (juniper) of Senir; they have taken cedars from Levanon to make masts for thee.