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The LORD’s word came again to me, saying, “You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre; See also: Ezekiel 19:1Jeremiah 9:17-20Ezekiel 28:12and tell Tyre, ‘You who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, the Lord GOD says: “You, Tyre, have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’ See also: Ezekiel 27:4Isaiah 23:11Ezekiel 28:2-3Your borders are in the heart of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty. See also: Ezekiel 26:5They have made all your planks of cypress trees from Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. See also: Deuteronomy 3:9Isaiah 14:8Song of Songs 4:8They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan. They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in cypress wood from the islands of Kittim. See also: Genesis 10:4Isaiah 2:13Zechariah 11:2Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, that it might be to you for a banner. Blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning. See also: Exodus 25:4Jeremiah 10:9Genesis 10:4The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers. Your wise men, Tyre, were in you. They were your pilots. See also: Genesis 10:181 Kings 9:27Ezekiel 27:11The old men of Gebal and its wise men were your repairers of ship seams in you. All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise. See also: 1 Kings 5:18Joshua 13:5Psalms 83:7“‘“Persia, Lud, and Put were in your army, your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you. They showed your beauty. See also: Ezekiel 38:5Ezekiel 30:5Isaiah 66:19The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, and valiant men were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around. They have perfected your beauty. See also: Ezekiel 27:3-4“‘“Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches. They traded for your wares with silver, iron, tin, and lead. See also: Genesis 10:4Ezekiel 38:131 Kings 10:22“‘“Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders. They traded the persons of men and vessels of bronze for your merchandise. See also: Genesis 10:2Isaiah 66:19Revelation 18:13“‘“They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses, war horses, and mules. See also: Genesis 10:3Ezekiel 38:61 Chronicles 1:6“‘“The men of Dedan traded with you. Many islands were the market of your hand. They brought you horns of ivory and ebony in exchange. See also: 1 Kings 10:22Genesis 10:7Revelation 18:12“‘“Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks. They traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies. See also: Judges 10:6Ezekiel 28:13Genesis 28:5“‘“Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded wheat of Minnith, confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise. See also: Judges 11:331 Kings 5:9Ezra 3:7“‘“Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool. See also: Isaiah 7:8Genesis 14:151 Kings 11:24-25“‘“Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were among your merchandise. See also: Exodus 30:23-24Judges 18:29Psalms 45:8“‘“Dedan was your merchant in precious saddle blankets for riding. See also: Genesis 25:3Ezekiel 27:15“‘“Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your favorite dealers in lambs, rams, and goats. In these, they were your merchants. See also: Isaiah 60:7Genesis 25:13Jeremiah 25:24“‘“The traders of Sheba and Raamah were your traders. They traded for your wares with the best of all spices, all precious stones, and gold. See also: Genesis 10:7Isaiah 60:6Psalms 72:10“‘“Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traders. See also: 2 Kings 19:12Isaiah 37:12Genesis 10:22These were your traders in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in cedar chests of rich clothing bound with cords, among your merchandise. See also: 2 Kings 2:8“‘“The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise. You were replenished and made very glorious in the heart of the seas. See also: Isaiah 2:16Psalms 48:7Isaiah 23:14Your rowers have brought you into great waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas. See also: Psalms 48:7Acts 27:14Ezekiel 26:19Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your company which is among you, will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin. See also: Proverbs 11:4Revelation 18:11-24Ezekiel 27:34At the sound of the cry of your pilots, the pasture lands will shake. See also: Ezekiel 26:10Ezekiel 27:35Exodus 15:14All who handle the oars, the mariners and all the pilots of the sea, will come down from their ships. They will stand on the land, See also: Ezekiel 32:10Ezekiel 26:16Revelation 18:17-24and will cause their voice to be heard over you, and will cry bitterly. They will cast up dust on their heads. They will wallow in the ashes. See also: Jeremiah 6:262 Samuel 1:2Lamentations 2:10They will make themselves bald for you, and clothe themselves with sackcloth. They will weep for you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning. See also: Ezekiel 7:18Isaiah 22:12Isaiah 15:2In their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, ‘Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the middle of the sea?’ See also: Ezekiel 26:17Ezekiel 27:2Revelation 18:18When your wares came from the seas, you filled many peoples. You enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise. See also: Revelation 18:19Ezekiel 27:12-36Isaiah 23:3-8In the time that you were broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company fell within you. See also: Zechariah 9:3-4Ezekiel 27:26-27Ezekiel 26:12-15All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid. They are troubled in their face. See also: Ezekiel 32:10Isaiah 23:6Ezekiel 28:17-19The merchants among the peoples hiss at you. You have come to a terrible end, and you will be no more.”’” See also: Jeremiah 18:16Ezekiel 26:21Psalms 37:10
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)25 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Ezekiel 27:2
Ver. 2. Lamentation. Such canticles were usual, and very poetical.
↑ 2Ezekiel 27:3
Ver. 3. Entry, whence merchants may proceed from an excellent harbour to any place.
↑ 3Ezekiel 27:4
Ver. 4. Neighbours of Sidon. Jos. xix. 29. C. --- Sept. "thy children." Prot. "thy builders." H.
--- The description of the Tyrian grandeur, shews their more woeful ruin. W.
↑ 4Ezekiel 27:5
Ver. 5. Thee. Heb. "all thy ship-boards." Sept. Prot. H. --- S. Jerom has divided (C.) leuthim,
"decks of the sea," as yam denotes the sea. H.
↑ 5Ezekiel 27:6
Ver. 6. Benches. Sept. "temples." --- Italy. Heb. Cetim. Macedonia. Boch. C. ---
All distant places were styled islands, (H.) when they went by water to them.
↑ 6Ezekiel 27:7
Ver. 7. Linen. Cotton, (Ex. xxv. 4.) used for standards. Sept. "for bed coverlets,"
or for sails. ---
Mast. Cleopatra and Caligula were still more sumptuous in their sails. --- Elisa, or Elis, famous for purple: yet Tyre was more so.
↑ 7Ezekiel 27:8
Ver. 8. Aradians. Sidon and Arad were then subject to Tyre, and supplied rowers. --- Pilots.
They studied no other science.
↑ 8Ezekiel 27:9
Ver. 9. Gebal. Sept. "Biblos," which is the same. 3 K. v. 18. --- Furnished. Heb.
"were in thee to repair thy breaches." Sept. "strengthened thy designs."
↑ 9Ezekiel 27:10
Ver. 10. Lybians. Heb. "Phut." They had been expelled by the Cyreneans. Tyre had in her pay the most warlike nations of Persia, &c. Cyrus soon after shook off the yoke of the Medes, and conquered the Lydians. --- Hung up. v. 11. This was very usual. Cant. iv. 4. Is. xxii. 8. C.
↑ 10Ezekiel 27:11
Ver. 11. The Pygmeans. That is, strong and valiant men. In Heb. Gammadim.
Ch. --- He does not speak of those fabulous men hardly a cubit high. Gomed signifying a "cubit," has caused them to be styled so here. Sept. "guards;" or Sym. "Medes." Ezechiel (xxxviii. 6.) speaks of the Gomerim.
↑ 11Ezekiel 27:12
Ver. 12. Carthaginians. Heb. "Tharsis," in Cilicia; (Gen. x. 4. C.) or distant merchants, who came by sea. H.
↑ 12Ezekiel 27:13
Ver. 13. Slaves. Those from Greece were much esteemed. C. --- Alas! thirty thousand Tyrians were themselves thus sold by Alexander! H.
↑ 13Ezekiel 27:14
Ver. 14. Horses. Those of Sarmatia (C.) were in high repute. Pliny viii. 42.
↑ 14Ezekiel 27:15
Ver. 15. Dedan. Sept. "Rhodians;" or rather Arabs are meant. v. 20. They might receive ivory from Ethiopia. --- Teeth. Heb. "horns or tusks," which the elephant casts every year. The ivory is less brittle. 3 K. x. 18. C. --- Ebony; a hard black wood, like horn. Bochart.
↑ 15Ezekiel 27:16
Ver. 16. Syrian: always much addicted to commerce. S. Jer. --- Sept. read Adam for Aram, as if the traffic in men was meant: (C.) "ivory, and to those who brought, thou gavest thy rewards.
(16) Men of thy traffic," &c. H. --- Linen. Heb. buts, "silk" extracted from the pinna fish. 1 Par.
xv. 27. Silk. Heb. ramoth, may rather denote unicorns. Job xxviii. 18. C. ---
Chodchod. It is the Hebrew name for some precious stone, but of what kind in particular, interpreters are not agreed. Ch. --- Some say the carbuncle, &c. S.
Jerom renders it the jasper. Is. liv. 12. W. ---
Here he confesses he knows not the meaning. C.
↑ 16Ezekiel 27:17
Ver. 17. Rosin. Our version generally renders this, balm. H. --- It was much used to heal. Jer.
viii. 22. Gen. xxxvii. 25.
↑ 17Ezekiel 27:18
Ver. 18. Rich. Heb. Chelbon; perhaps the city Chelba. Jud. i. 31. The kings of Persia used this wine, and planted vines at Damascus on purpose.
↑ 18Ezekiel 27:19
Ver. 19. Dan: the citizens of Peneas, the tribe of Dan was in captivity. Grotius places these nations in Zeilan, (C.) or Ceylon. H.
↑ 19Ezekiel 27:20
Ver. 20. Seats, such as the Turks still use, or to throw over horses instead of saddles.
↑ 20Ezekiel 27:23
Ver. 23. Haran, or Charæ, famous for the residence of Abraham and the defeat of Crassus. ---
Eden, the province where Paradise was situated.
↑ 23Ezekiel 27:24
Ver. 24. Cords, in boxes, which had then no locks.
↑ 24Ezekiel 27:25
Ver. 25. Sea. Heb. Tharsis, in Cilicia; or large, and fit for long voyages. Thine were the best. C.
↑ 25Ezekiel 27:26
Ver. 26. South. Heb. kodim, (H.) "eastern," or rather "burning," here means Nabuchodonosor, who came from the north, (C. xxvi. 7. C.) or east. The fall of Tyre is described as a shipwreck.
H.
↑ 26Ezekiel 27:30
Ver. 30. Ashes. They followed the same customs as the Jews. C. --- The latter were ordered to avoid cutting the hair, like them; yet did so. Deut. xiv. Is. xxii.
22. W.
↑ 30Ezekiel 27:36
Ver. 36. Hissed, through pity and astonishment. C.
↑ 36License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses