Ezekiel 27 · Verse 2

Ezekiel 27:2

Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
Ezekiel 27:2, King James Version

Ezekiel 27:2 in other translations

BSB“Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.
WEB“You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
ASVAnd thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
YLT‘And thou, son of man, lift up concerning Tyre a lamentation, and thou hast said to Tyre:
DARBYAnd thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,
BBEAnd you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;
WebsterNow, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;

What does Ezekiel 27:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Eze 27:1-36. Tyre's Former Greatness, Suggesting a Lamentation over Her Sad Downfall.

2. lamentation--a funeral dirge, eulogizing her great attributes, to make the contrast the greater between her former and her latter state.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 Take up a lamentation for Tyrus - This is a singular and curious chapter. It gives a very circumstantial account of the trade of Tyre with different parts of the world, and the different sorts of merchandise in which she trafficked. The places and the imports are as regularly entered here as they could have been in a European custom-house.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 27:1-25

The merchandise of Tyre. (Ezek 27:1-25) Its fall and ruin. (Ezek 27:26-36) Verses 1-25 Those who live at ease are to be lamented, if they are not prepared for trouble. Let none reckon themselves beautified, any further than they are sanctified. The account of the trade of Tyre intimates, that God's eye is upon men when employed in worldly business. Not only when at church, praying and hearing, but when in markets…

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Ezekiel 27:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְאַתָּ֣הve.'a.Tahand youH859
בֶן\־ven-O son ofH1121
אָדָ֔ם'a.DamhumankindH120
שָׂ֥אsa'take upH5375
עַל\־'al-onH5921
צֹ֖רtzorTyreH6865
קִינָֽה\׃ki.Naha lamentationH7015

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 27:2

  • Jeremiah 9:17-20

    Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

  • Ezekiel 19:1

    Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

  • Jeremiah 9:10

    For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

  • Ezekiel 28:12

    Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

  • Ezekiel 26:17

    And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

  • Ezekiel 27:32

    And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

  • Amos 5:1

    Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

  • Amos 5:16

    Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

  • Ezekiel 32:2

    Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

  • Jeremiah 7:20

    Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
32; 19:1; 26:17; 28:12; 32:2; Jer 7:20; 9:10,17-20; Am 5:1,16

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Context

  • Ezekiel 27:1

    The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,

  • Ezekiel 27:2

    Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

  • Ezekiel 27:3

    And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.

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Ezekiel 27:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y tú, hijo del hombre, levanta endechas sobre Tiro.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et toi, fils d’homme, élève une complainte sur Tyr,
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und du, Menschensohn, erhebe ein Klagelied über Tyrus
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Tu ergo, fili hominis, assume super Tyrum lamentum: