Bible verse
“Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.
Ezekiel 27:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ezekiel 27.
1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2 “Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.
3 Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.
5 They constructed all your planking with cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
6 Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of wood from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, inlaid with ivory.
KJV
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
ASV
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
ERV
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;
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