Text -- Ezekiel 27:1-3 (NET)

A Lament for Tyre

27:1 The word of the Lord came to me: 27:2 “You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre. 27:3 Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance of the sea, merchant to the peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfectly beautiful.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 27:2

¹ tn Heb “lift up over Tyre a lament.”

NET Notes: Eze 27:3

¹ tn Heb “entrances.” The plural noun may reflect the fact that Tyre had two main harbors.

² sn Rome, another economic power, is described in a similar way in Rev 17:1.