Ezekiel 27:2

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““Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.”

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BSBPD

““Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And thou, son of man, lift up concerning Tyre a lamentation, and thou hast said to Tyre:”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 27:2 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Jeremiah 7:20Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
  2. Jeremiah 9:10I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
  3. Jeremiah 9:16I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”
  4. Jeremiah 9:17This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
  5. Jeremiah 9:19For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
  6. Ezekiel 19:1“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel
  7. Ezekiel 26:17Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men— she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!
  8. Ezekiel 27:32As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: ‘Who was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?
  9. Ezekiel 28:12“Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
  10. Ezekiel 32:2“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’
  11. Amos 5:1Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
  12. Amos 5:16Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

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