Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Ezekiel 27:2
Pen a mournful narrative of Tyre's fall, tell the world what she was, and what she is come to; both city and citizens too.
Pen a mournful narrative of Tyre's fall, tell the world what she was, and what she is come to; both city and citizens too.
Verse Ezekiel 27:2. _TAKE UP A LAMENTATION FOR TYRUS_] This is a singular and curious chapter. It gives a very circumstantial account of the trade of Tyre with different parts of the world, and the _d...
Ezekiel 27:1. Ezekiel 27:1 give an interesting description of the world-wide commerce and glory of this proud world city. “Sic transit gloria mundi,” thus passeth the glory of the world! Of the proud...
EZEKIEL 27. THE DIRGE OVER TYRE. The interest of the brilliant poem that follows is greatly enhanced by the description of the commerce of Tyre in a passage (Ezekiel 27:9_ b_ - Ezekiel 27:25_ a_) rema...
SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1, TYRUS. See note on Ezekiel 26:2....
Ezekiel 27:1. Tyre as a gallant ship 2. For the phrase "take up a lamentation" cf. Ezekiel 19:1; Ezekiel 26:17; Ezekiel 28:12;...
TAKE UP A LAMENTATION, &C.— This alludes to the melancholy songs used at funerals, concerning which we spoke in our comment on the Lamentations; and wherein the women recounted every thing which was v...
A. The Ship Prepared for Sailing 27:1-11 TRANSLATION (1) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (2) NOW as for you, son of man, take Up a lamentation over Tyre, (3) and say to Tyre, who dwell...
II. THE LAMENTATION OVER TYRE 27:1-36 Chapter 27 consists of an allegorical dirge song artistically interrupted by a prose section. Tyre is pictured as a beautiful ship superbly fitted out and manned...
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; TAKE UP A LAMENTATION - a funeral dirge, eulogizing her great attributes, to make the contrast the greater between her former and her latter...
THE WRECK OF THE GALLANT SHIP Under the figure of a ship, splendidly equipped, fully manned, and richly laden, but steered into stormy waters and wrecked, Ezekiel describes the fall of Tyre. In Ezeki...
EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 27 A FUNERAL SONG FOR TYRE – EZEKIEL 27:1-11 V1 The
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TYRE (CONTINUED): SIDON Ezekiel 27:1; Ezekiel 28:1 THE remaining oracles on Tyre (Chapter s 27, Ezekiel 28:1) are somewhat different both in subject and mode of treatment from the chapter we have jus...
At the command of Jehovah, Ezekiel then took up a lamentation for Tyre. This took the form of a pictorial representation of her as a gallant ship trafficking among the nations and ultimately wrecked,...
_Lamentation. Such canticles were usual, and very poetical._...
It was said in the preceding Chapter, (Ezekiel 26:6), that Tyrus should know by the Lord's judgments, that He was the Lord. In this Chapter, the Lord commands his servant to put Tyrus in mind of her p...
_THE DIRGE OF TYRE_ ‘A lamentation for Cyrus.’ Ezekiel 27:2 I. THIS IS A FUNERAL DIRGE OVER TYRE.—She is compared to a vast ship, for the construction and manning of which all nations are laid unde...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 26, 27, AND 28. Although in a certain sense upon Israel's territory, Tyre has another character, and is the subject of a separate prophecy (chaps. 26-28), bec...
NOW, THOU SON OF MAN, TAKE UP A LAMENTATION FOR TYRUS. Compose an elegy, and sing it; make a mournful noise, and deliver out a funeral ditty; such as the "praeficae", or mournful women, made at funera...
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; Ver. 2. _Take up a lamentation for Tyrus._] Fitly here compared to a goodly ship, _a_ and her desolation to a dismal shipwreck. Theodoret's note...
_Take up a lamentation for Tyrus_ This alludes to the mournful lamentations used at funerals, wherein the mourning women recounted every thing that was valuable or praiseworthy belonging to the deceas...
DESCRIPTION OF THE GLORY AND MIGHT OF TYRE...
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation, a song of mourning or a funeral dirge, FOR TYRUS,...
1-25 Those who live at ease are to be lamented, if they are not prepared for trouble. Let none reckon themselves beautified, any further than they are sanctified. The account of the trade of Tyre int...
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‘The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying, “And you, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre. And say to Tyre: “You, O Tyre, have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty. Your borders are in the heart...
CONTENTS: Lamentation for Tyre. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: God takes notice of the vain conceits men have of themselves in their prosperity. When they pride themselves on pomp and pleasur...
Ezekiel 27:6. _The isles of Chittim._ Cilicia, Cyprus, Macedonia, the Greek islands, or Apulia on the shores of Italy. Thus critics take the word in a general sense. Ezekiel 27:9. _Gebal,_ a district...
_Take up a lamentation for Tyrus._ A PROUD CITY The men of the world are wise, choosing the fittest places for their own advantage and interest. Let us learn so much of the men of the world, to be w...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 27:1 This second installment of the prophecy against TYRE is both simple and complex. It follows a simple story line, in the form of a lament, but the language and technical de...
TYRE’S FORMER GREATNESS, SUGGESTING A LAMENTATION OVER HER SAD DOWNFALL (Chap. 27) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“The lamentation commences with a picture of the glory of the city of Tyre, its situation, its arch...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 27:2 TAKE UP A LAMENTATION FOR TYRUS. The dirge over the merchant-city that follows, the doom _sic transit gloria mundi, _worked out with a fullness of detail which reminds us of t...
So the word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation (Ezekiel 27:1-2) This is a wailing, a cry for Tyrus. This is lamenting the destruction that is come. An...
Amos 5:1; Amos 5:16; Ezekiel 19:1; Ezekiel 26:17; Ezekiel 27:32;...
A lamentation — We ought to mourn for the miseries of other nations, as well as of our own, out of an affection for mankind in general; yea, tho' they have brought them upon themselves....