A Lament for Tyre
Ezekiel 27:25
In 11 translations
- BSB
- The ships of Tarshish carried your merchandise. And you were filled with heavy cargo in the heart of the sea.Or A fleet of trading ships
- KJV
- The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
- WEB
- “‘“The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise. You were replenished and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.
- ASV
- The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.
- LSV
- Ships of Tarshish are journeying [with] your merchandise for you, || And you are filled and honored greatly, || In the heart of the seas.
- YLT
- Ships of Tarshish [are] thy double walls of thy merchandise, And thou art filled and honoured greatly, In the heart of the seas.
- DBY
- The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy traffic; and thou wast replenished, and highly honoured, in the heart of the seas.
- DRC
- The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea.
- GNV
- The shippes of Tarshish were thy chiefe in thy marchandise, and thou wast replenished and made very glorious in the middes of the sea.
- JPS
- The ships of Tarshish brought thee tribute for thy merchandise; so wast thou replenished, and made very heavy in the heart of the seas.
- LXXE
- Ships were thy merchants, in abundance, with thy trading population: and thou wast filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea.
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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Aleppo Codex and Ben Chaim’s Second Rabbinic Bible reads בְּלֵ֥ב; Leningrad Codex and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia reads בְּלֵ֥ב־ (“in [the] heart of”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אֳנִיּ֣וֹת תַּרְשִׁ֔ישׁ שָׁרוֹתַ֖יִךְ מַעֲרָבֵ֑ךְ וַתִּמָּלְאִ֧י וַֽתִּכְבְּדִ֛י מְאֹ֖ד בְּלֵ֥ב־יַמִּֽים׃
- LXX-Br
- Πλοῖα ἔμποροί σου, ἐν τῷ πλήθει, ἐν τῷ συμμίκτῳ σου· καὶ ἐνεπλήσθης καὶ ἐβαρύνθης σφόδρα ἐν καρδίᾳ θαλάσσης.
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📍 Tarshish◆ Prophecies of Ezekiel
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Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 2:16against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.
- Psalms 48:7With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
- Isaiah 23:14Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!
- 1 Kings 10:22For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
- Isaiah 60:9Surely the islands will wait for Me, with the ships of Tarshish in the lead, to bring your children from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for He has glorified…
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