Ezekiel 27:20-30

20 The people of Dedan traded saddle blankets for your goods.

21 The Arabians and the rulers of the land of Kedar paid for your merchandise with lambs, sheep, and goats.

22 For your goods the merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded jewels, gold, and the finest spices.

23 The cities of Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, the cities of Asshur and Chilmad - they all traded with you.

24 They sold you luxurious clothing, purple cloth, and embroidery, brightly colored carpets, and well-made cords and ropes.

25 Your merchandise was carried in fleets of the largest cargo ships. ¹ "You were like a ship at sea Loaded with heavy cargo.

26 When your oarsmen brought you out to sea, An east wind wrecked you far from land.

27 All your wealth of merchandise, All the sailors in your crew, Your ship's carpenters and your merchants, Every soldier on board the ship - All, all were lost at sea When your ship was wrecked.

28 The shouts of the drowning sailors Echoed on the shore.

29 "Every ship is now deserted, And every sailor has gone ashore.

30 They all mourn bitterly for you, Throwing dust on their heads and rolling in ashes.

Ezekiel 27:20-30 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. 27.25-36Revelation 18.11-19.