יחזקאל 27
| ויהי דבר יהוה אלי לאמר׃ | 1 |
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
| ואתה בן אדם שא על צר קינה׃ | 2 |
“You, therefore, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre.
| ואמרת לצור הישבתי על מבואת ים רכלת העמים אל איים רבים כה אמר אדני יהוה צור את אמרת אני כלילת יפי׃ | 3 |
And you shall say to Tyre, which lives at the entrance to the sea, which is the marketplace of the peoples for the many islands: Thus says the Lord God: O Tyre, you have said, ‘I am of perfect beauty,
| בלב ימים גבוליך בניך כללו יפיך׃ | 4 |
for I have been positioned at the heart of the sea!’ Your neighbors, who built you, have filled up your beauty.
| ברושים משניר בנו לך את כל לחתים ארז מלבנון לקחו לעשות תרן עליך׃ | 5 |
They constructed you with spruce from Senir, with all the planks of the sea. They have taken cedars from Lebanon, so that they might make a mast for you.
| אלונים מבשן עשו משוטיך קרשך עשו שן בת אשרים מאיי כתים׃ | 6 |
They have formed your oars from the oaks of Bashan. And they have made your crossbeams from Indian ivory, and the pilothouse is from the islands of Italy.
| שש ברקמה ממצרים היה מפרשך להיות לך לנס תכלת וארגמן מאיי אלישה היה מכסך׃ | 7 |
Colorful fine linen from Egypt was woven for you as a sail to be placed upon the mast; hyacinth and purple from the islands of Elishah were made into your covering.
| ישבי צידון וארוד היו שטים לך חכמיך צור היו בך המה חבליך׃ | 8 |
The inhabitants of Sidon and of Arwad were your rowers. Your wise ones, O Tyre, were your navigators.
| זקני גבל וחכמיה היו בך מחזיקי בדקך כל אניות הים ומלחיהם היו בך לערב מערבך׃ | 9 |
The elders of Gebal and its experts were considered as sailors making use of your diverse equipment. All the ships of the sea and their sailors were your merchants among the people.
| פרס ולוד ופוט היו בחילך אנשי מלחמתך מגן וכובע תלו בך המה נתנו הדרך׃ | 10 |
The Persians, and the Lydians, and the Libyans were your men of war in your army. They suspended shield and helmet within you for your adornment.
| בני ארוד וחילך על חומותיך סביב וגמדים במגדלותיך היו שלטיהם תלו על חומותיך סביב המה כללו יפיך׃ | 11 |
The sons of Arwad were with your army upon your walls all around. And even the Gammadim, who were in your towers, suspended their quivers on your walls on all sides; they completed your beauty.
| תרשיש סחרתך מרב כל הון בכסף ברזל בדיל ועופרת נתנו עזבוניך׃ | 12 |
The Carthaginians, your merchants, supplied your festivals with a multitude of diverse riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead.
| יון תבל ומשך המה רכליך בנפש אדם וכלי נחשת נתנו מערבך׃ | 13 |
Greece, Tubal, and Meshech, these were your peddlers; they traveled to your people with slaves and with brass vessels.
| מבית תוגרמה סוסים ופרשים ופרדים נתנו עזבוניך׃ | 14 |
From the house of Togarmah, they brought horses, and horsemen, and mules to your market.
| בני דדן רכליך איים רבים סחרת ידך קרנות שן והובנים השיבו אשכרך׃ | 15 |
The sons of Dedan were your merchants. The many islands were the marketplace of your hand. They traded teeth of ivory and of ebony for your price.
| ארם סחרתך מרב מעשיך בנפך ארגמן ורקמה ובוץ וראמת וכדכד נתנו בעזבוניך׃ | 16 |
The Syrian was your merchant. Because of the multitude of your works, they offered jewels, and purple, and patterned cloth, and fine linen, and silk, and other valuables in your market.
| יהודה וארץ ישראל המה רכליך בחטי מנית ופנג ודבש ושמן וצרי נתנו מערבך׃ | 17 |
Judah and the land of Israel, these were your peddlers of the best grain; they offered balsam, and honey, and oil, and resins at your festivals.
| דמשק סחרתך ברב מעשיך מרב כל הון ביין חלבון וצמר צחר׃ | 18 |
The Damascene was your trader in the multitude of your works, in greatly diverse wealth, in rich wine, in wool with the finest coloring.
| ודן ויון מאוזל בעזבוניך נתנו ברזל עשות קדה וקנה במערבך היה׃ | 19 |
Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have offered works made of iron at your festivals. Storax ointment and sweet flag were in your marketplace.
| דדן רכלתך בבגדי חפש לרכבה׃ | 20 |
The men of Dedan were your peddlers of tapestries used as seats.
| ערב וכל נשיאי קדר המה סחרי ידך בכרים ואילים ועתודים בם סחריך׃ | 21 |
Arabia and all the leaders of Kedar, these were the merchants at your hand. Your merchants came to you with lambs, and rams, and young goats.
| רכלי שבא ורעמה המה רכליך בראש כל בשם ובכל אבן יקרה וזהב נתנו עזבוניך׃ | 22 |
The vendors of Sheba and Raamah, these were your merchants, with all the finest aromatics, and precious stones, and gold, which they offered in your marketplace.
| חרן וכנה ועדן רכלי שבא אשור כלמד רכלתך׃ | 23 |
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden were your merchants. Sheba, Assur, and Chilmad were your sellers.
| המה רכליך במכללים בגלומי תכלת ורקמה ובגנזי ברמים בחבלים חבשים וארזים במרכלתך׃ | 24 |
These were your merchants in many places, with windings of hyacinth and of colorful weavings, and with precious treasures, which were wrapped and bound with cords. Also, they had works of cedar among your merchandise.
| אניות תרשיש שרותיך מערבך ותמלאי ותכבדי מאד בלב ימים׃ | 25 |
The ships of the sea were important to your business dealings. For you were replenished and exceedingly glorified in the heart of the sea.
| במים רבים הביאוך השטים אתך רוח הקדים שברך בלב ימים׃ | 26 |
Your rowers have brought you into many waters. The south wind has worn you down in the heart of the sea.
| הונך ועזבוניך מערבך מלחיך וחבליך מחזיקי בדקך וערבי מערבך וכל אנשי מלחמתך אשר בך ובכל קהלך אשר בתוכך יפלו בלב ימים ביום מפלתך׃ | 27 |
Your riches, and your treasures, and your versatile equipment, your sailors and your navigators, who handle your goods and who were first among your people, likewise your men of war, who were among you, and your entire multitude that is in your midst: they will fall in the heart of the sea on the day of your ruin.
| לקול זעקת חבליך ירעשו מגרשות׃ | 28 |
Your fleets will be disturbed by the sound of an outcry from your navigators.
| וירדו מאניותיהם כל תפשי משוט מלחים כל חבלי הים אל הארץ יעמדו׃ | 29 |
And all who were handling the oar will descend from their ships; the sailors and all the navigators of the sea will stand upon the land.
| והשמיעו עליך בקולם ויזעקו מרה ויעלו עפר על ראשיהם באפר יתפלשו׃ | 30 |
And they will howl over you with a great voice, and they will cry out with bitterness. And they will cast dust upon their heads, and they will be sprinkled with ashes.
| והקריחו אליך קרחה וחגרו שקים ובכו אליך במר נפש מספד מר׃ | 31 |
And they will shave their heads because of you, and they will be wrapped in haircloth. And they will weep for you with bitterness of soul, with a very bitter weeping.
| ונשאו אליך בניהם קינה וקוננו עליך מי כצור כדמה בתוך הים׃ | 32 |
And they will take up a mournful verse over you, and they will lament you: ‘What city is like Tyre, which has become mute in the midst of the sea?’
| בצאת עזבוניך מימים השבעת עמים רבים ברב הוניך ומערביך העשרת מלכי ארץ׃ | 33 |
For by the going forth of your merchandise by sea, you supplied many peoples; by the multitude of your riches and of your people, you enriched the kings of the earth.
| עת נשברת מימים במעמקי מים מערבך וכל קהלך בתוכך נפלו׃ | 34 |
Now you have been worn away by the sea, your opulence is in the depths of the waters, and your entire multitude that was in your midst has fallen.
| כל ישבי האיים שממו עליך ומלכיהם שערו שער רעמו פנים׃ | 35 |
All the inhabitants of the islands have been stupefied over you; and all their kings, having been struck by the tempest, have changed their expression.
| סחרים בעמים שרקו עליך בלהות היית ואינך עד עולם׃ | 36 |
The merchants of the peoples have hissed over you. You have been reduced to nothing, and you shall not be again, even forever.”
