Therefore thus says the Lord God: My anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on humans and animals, on the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.
Ezekiel 27:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Now you, mortal, raise a lamentation over Tyre, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now you, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre, American Standard Version (1901) And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre; Common English Bible You, human one, sing a lament for Tyre. Catholic Public Domain Version "You, therefore, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre: |
Therefore thus says the Lord God: My anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on humans and animals, on the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.
Take up weeping and wailing for the mountains and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the animals have fled and are gone.
I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.
And they shall raise a lamentation over you and say to you: “How you have vanished from the seas, O city renowned, once mighty on the sea, you and your inhabitants, who imposed your terror on all the mainland!
In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you and lament over you: “Who was ever destroyed like Tyre in the midst of the sea?
Mortal, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him: Thus says the Lord God: You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
Mortal, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: You consider yourself a lion among the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, trouble the water with your feet, and foul your streams.
Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:
Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord: In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say, “Alas! Alas!” They shall call the farmers to mourning and those skilled in lamentation to wailing;