And the word of the Lord came to me, saying
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Rahlfs Septuagint
Ezekiel 27
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Son of man, take up over Tyre a lamentation
καὶ ἐρεῖς τῇ Σορ τῇ κατοικούσῃ ἐπὶ τῆς εἰσόδου τῆς θαλάσσης τῷ ἐμπορίῳ τῶν λαῶν ἀπὸ νήσων πολλῶν τάδε λέγει κύριος τῇ Σορ σὺ εἶπας ἐγὼ περιέθηκα ἐμαυτῇ κάλλος μου
And you shall say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrance of the sea, trading of the peoples from many islands: thus says the Lord to Tyre, You said, I have put my beauty around myself.
In the heart of the sea your sons of Beelim have put beauty around you
κέδρος ἐκ Σανιρ ᾠκοδομήθη σοι ταινίαι σανίδων κυπαρίσσου ἐκ τοῦ Λιβάνου ἐλήμφθησαν τοῦ ποιῆσαί σοι ἱστοὺς ἐλατίνους
Cedar from Senir was built for you; planks of cypress from Lebanon were taken to make masts for you from fir trees.
ἐκ τῆς Βασανίτιδος ἐποίησαν τὰς κώπας σου τὰ ἱερά σου ἐποίησαν ἐξ ἐλέφαντος οἴκους ἀλσώδεις ἀπὸ νήσων τῶν Χεττιιν
From Bashan they made your oars; your sacred things they made from ivory, wooded houses, from the islands of the Hittites.
βύσσος μετὰ ποικιλίας ἐξ Αἰγύπτου ἐγένετό σοι στρωμνὴ τοῦ περιθεῖναί σοι δόξαν καὶ περιβαλεῖν σε ὑάκινθον καὶ πορφύραν ἐκ τῶν νήσων Ελισαι καὶ ἐγένετο περιβόλαιά σου
Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt became your covering, for glory to place on you and to wrap you in hyacinth and purple from the islands of Elishah, and it became your wrapping
καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντές σου οἱ κατοικοῦντες Σιδῶνα καὶ Αράδιοι ἐγένοντο κωπηλάται σου οἱ σοφοί σου Σορ οἳ ἦσαν ἐν σοί οὗτοι κυβερνῆταί σου
And your rulers, those dwelling in Sidon, and the Aradians, became your rowers; your wise men, O Tyre, who were in you, these were your helmsmen
οἱ πρεσβύτεροι Βυβλίων καὶ οἱ σοφοὶ αὐτῶν ἦσαν ἐν σοί οὗτοι ἐνίσχυον τὴν βουλήν σου καὶ πάντα τὰ πλοῖα τῆς θαλάσσης καὶ οἱ κωπηλάται αὐτῶν ἐγένοντό σοι ἐπὶ δυσμὰς δυσμῶν
The elders of Byblos and their wise men were in you; these strengthened your counsel, and all the ships of the sea and their rowers became for you for the west of the west.
Πέρσαι καὶ Λυδοὶ καὶ Λίβυες ἦσαν ἐν τῇ δυνάμει σου ἄνδρες πολεμισταί σου πέλτας καὶ περικεφαλαίας ἐκρέμασαν ἐν σοί οὗτοι ἔδωκαν τὴν δόξαν σου
Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in your army; your men of war hung shields and helmets in you; these gave your glory
υἱοὶ Αραδίων καὶ ἡ δύναμίς σου ἐπὶ τῶν τειχέων σου φύλακες ἐν τοῖς πύργοις σου ἦσαν τὰς φαρέτρας αὐτῶν ἐκρέμασαν ἐπὶ τῶν ὅρμων σου κύκλῳ οὗτοι ἐτελείωσάν σου τὸ κάλλος
The sons of Aradians and your power were on your walls; guards in your towers. They hung their quivers on your battlements all around; these completed your beauty.
Καρχηδόνιοι ἔμποροί σου ἀπὸ πλήθους πάσης ἰσχύος σου ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον καὶ σίδηρον καὶ κασσίτερον καὶ μόλυβον ἔδωκαν τὴν ἀγοράν σου
The Carthaginians were your merchants; from the abundance of all your strength they gave silver and gold and iron and tin and lead for your market.
ἡ Ἑλλὰς καὶ ἡ σύμπασα καὶ τὰ παρατείνοντα οὗτοι ἐνεπορεύοντό σοι ἐν ψυχαῖς ἀνθρώπων καὶ σκεύη χαλκᾶ ἔδωκαν τὴν ἐμπορίαν σου
Greece and all together, and those extending far, these traded with you in human lives and gave bronze vessels as your merchandise
From the house of Togarmah they gave horses and horsemen for your trade.
υἱοὶ Ῥοδίων ἔμποροί σου ἀπὸ νήσων ἐπλήθυναν τὴν ἐμπορίαν σου ὀδόντας ἐλεφαντίνους καὶ τοῖς εἰσαγομένοις ἀντεδίδους τοὺς μισθούς σου
The sons of Rhodes were your merchants; from the islands they increased your trade; ivory tusks, and for the things brought in you gave back your wages.
ἀνθρώπους ἐμπορίαν σου ἀπὸ πλήθους τοῦ συμμίκτου σου στακτὴν καὶ ποικίλματα ἐκ Θαρσις καὶ Ραμωθ καὶ Χορχορ ἔδωκαν τὴν ἀγοράν σου
Men, the merchandise of your trade, from the multitude of your mixed company, gave as your wares stacte and variegated goods from Tarshish and Ramoth and Chorchor.
Ιουδας καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ Ισραηλ οὗτοι ἔμποροί σου ἐν σίτου πράσει καὶ μύρων καὶ κασίας καὶ πρῶτον μέλι καὶ ἔλαιον καὶ ῥητίνην ἔδωκαν εἰς τὸν σύμμικτόν σου
Judas and the sons of Israel, these were your merchants in the sale of wheat and of perfumes and of cassia and first honey and oil and resin; they gave them for your mixed wares
Damascus was your merchant by reason of the abundance of all your wealth; wine from Helbon and wool from Miletus.
And wine for your market they gave from Ashel; worked iron and wheel are in your mixed stock.
Dedan, your merchants with choice cattle for chariots
ἡ Ἀραβία καὶ πάντες οἱ ἄρχοντες Κηδαρ οὗτοι ἔμποροί σου διὰ χειρός σου καμήλους καὶ κριοὺς καὶ ἀμνοὺς ἐν οἷς ἐμπορεύονταί σε
Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar, these were your merchants; by your hand they traded with you camels and rams and lambs, with which they bartered with you
ἔμποροι Σαβα καὶ Ραγμα οὗτοι ἔμποροί σου μετὰ πρώτων ἡδυσμάτων καὶ λίθων χρηστῶν καὶ χρυσίον ἔδωκαν τὴν ἀγοράν σου
The merchants of Sheba and Raama, these were your merchants; with choice spices and precious stones, and they gave gold for your market.
Haran and Canneh, these were your merchants; Asshur and Charman were your merchants.
carrying trade goods of hyacinth and chosen treasures bound with cords and cypress wood
πλοῖα ἐν αὐτοῖς Καρχηδόνιοι ἔμποροί σου ἐν τῷ πλήθει ἐν τῷ συμμίκτῳ σου καὶ ἐνεπλήσθης καὶ ἐβαρύνθης σφόδρα ἐν καρδίᾳ θαλάσσης
Ships in them, the Carthaginians were your merchants; in your multitude, in your mixed assembly, and you were filled and greatly burdened in the heart of the sea.
Your rowers brought you into many waters; the wind of the south broke you in the heart of the sea.
ἦσαν δυνάμεις σου καὶ ὁ μισθός σου καὶ τῶν συμμίκτων σου καὶ οἱ κωπηλάται σου καὶ οἱ κυβερνῆταί σου καὶ οἱ σύμβουλοί σου καὶ οἱ σύμμικτοί σου ἐκ τῶν συμμίκτων σου καὶ πάντες οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ πολεμισταί σου οἱ ἐν σοὶ καὶ πᾶσα ἡ συναγωγή σου ἐν μέσῳ σου πεσοῦνται ἐν καρδίᾳ θαλάσσης ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς πτώσεώς σου
Your riches and your wages and your mixed goods and your rowers and your pilots and your counselors and your mixed men from your mixed goods and all your warriors who are in you and all your assembly in your midst shall fall in the heart of the sea on the day of your fall
At the sound of your cry your pilots shall be greatly afraid in fear.
καὶ καταβήσονται ἀπὸ τῶν πλοίων πάντες οἱ κωπηλάται σου καὶ οἱ ἐπιβάται καὶ οἱ πρωρεῖς τῆς θαλάσσης ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν στήσονται
And all your rowers and the passengers and the sea pilots will come down from the ships; they will stand on the land.
καὶ ἀλαλάξουσιν ἐπὶ σὲ τῇ φωνῇ αὐτῶν καὶ κεκράξονται πικρὸν καὶ ἐπιθήσουσιν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτῶν γῆν καὶ σποδὸν ὑποστρώσονται
And they will cry out over you with their voice and will cry bitterly, and they will put earth and ashes upon their head and will spread under them ashes.
And their sons will take up over you a lamentation and a lament for you
πόσον τινὰ εὗρες μισθὸν ἀπὸ τῆς θαλάσσης ἐνέπλησας ἔθνη ἀπὸ τοῦ πλήθους σου καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ συμμίκτου σου ἐπλούτισας πάντας βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς
How much did you find as a wage from the sea; you filled nations from your abundance, and from your mixed trade you enriched all the kings of the earth
νῦν συνετρίβης ἐν θαλάσσῃ ἐν βάθει ὕδατος ὁ σύμμικτός σου καὶ πᾶσα ἡ συναγωγή σου ἐν μέσῳ σου ἔπεσον πάντες οἱ κωπηλάται σου
Now you have been broken in the sea, in the depths of water; your mixed company and all your gathering in your midst have fallen, all your rowers.
πάντες οἱ κατοικοῦντες τὰς νήσους ἐστύγνασαν ἐπὶ σέ καὶ οἱ βασιλεῖς αὐτῶν ἐκστάσει ἐξέστησαν καὶ ἐδάκρυσεν τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν
All who inhabit the islands were astonished at you, and their kings were utterly amazed, and their face was made to weep.
Merchants from the nations hissed at you; you became destruction, and you shall be no more forever.