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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Ammon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Say to them, &#8216;Hear the word of the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Because you said &#8220;Aha!&#8221; over my sanctuary when it was desecrated and over the land of Israel when it was laid waste and over the people of Judah when they went into exile, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">therefore I am going to give you to the people of the East as a possession. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I will turn Rabbah into a pasture for camels and Ammon into a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet, rejoicing with all the malice of your heart against the land of Israel, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">therefore I will stretch out my hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will wipe you out from among the nations and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Moab</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.25.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Because Moab and Seir said, &#8220;Look, Judah has become like all the other nations,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">therefore I will expose the flank of Moab, beginning at its frontier towns&#8212;Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon and Kiriathaim&#8212;the glory of that land. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will give Moab along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, so that the Ammonites will not be remembered among the nations; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and I will inflict punishment on Moab. Then they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Edom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.25.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Because Edom took revenge on Judah and became very guilty by doing so, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and kill both man and beast. I will lay it waste, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will take vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will deal with Edom in accordance with my anger and my wrath; they will know my vengeance, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Philistia</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.25.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to destroy Judah, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will wipe out the Kerethites and destroy those remaining along the coast. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, when I take vengeance on them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Tyre</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the eleventh month of the twelfth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:1 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text does not have </span><span class="fq">month of the twelfth</span><span class="ft">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> year, on the first day of the month, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, &#8216;Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Out in the sea she will become a place to spread fishnets, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. She will become plunder for the nations, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and her settlements on the mainland will be ravaged by the sword. Then they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.26.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;For this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: From the north I am going to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:7 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Nebuchadrezzar, </span><span class="ft">of which </span><span class="fqa">Nebuchadnezzar </span><span class="ft">is a variant; here and often in Ezekiel and Jeremiah</span></span></span><span class="content"> king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with horsemen and a great army. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp up to your walls and raise his shields against you. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">His horses will be so many that they will cover you with dust. Your walls will tremble at the noise of the warhorses, wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets; he will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will put an end to your noisy songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have spoken, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.26.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to Tyre: Will not the coastlands tremble at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan and the slaughter takes place in you? </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then all the princes of the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled at you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then they will take up a lament concerning you and say to you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;How you are destroyed, city of renown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">peopled by men of the sea!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">You were a power on the seas,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">you and your citizens;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">you put your terror</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">on all who lived there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Now the coastlands tremble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="content">on the day of your fall;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="content">the islands in the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="content">are terrified at your collapse.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths over you and its vast waters cover you, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:20 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">return, and I will give glory</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the land of the living. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will bring you to a horrible end and you will be no more. You will be sought, but you will never again be found, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Lament Over Tyre</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, take up a lament concerning Tyre. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Say to Tyre, situated at the gateway to the sea, merchant of peoples on many coasts, &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.27.3"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You say, Tyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.27.3"><span class="content">&#8220;I am perfect in beauty.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.27.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your domain was on the high seas;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.27.4"><span class="content">your builders brought your beauty to perfection.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They made all your timbers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.27.5"><span class="content">of juniper from Senir</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, Mount Hermon</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.27.5"><span class="content">they took a cedar from Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.27.5"><span class="content">to make a mast for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Of oaks from Bashan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.27.6"><span class="content">they made your oars;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.27.6"><span class="content">of cypress wood</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:6 </span><span class="ft">Targum; the Masoretic Text has a different division of the consonants.</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the coasts of Cyprus</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.27.6"><span class="content">they made your deck, adorned with ivory.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.27.7"><span class="content">and served as your banner;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.27.7"><span class="content">your awnings were of blue and purple</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.27.7"><span class="content">from the coasts of Elishah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.27.8"><span class="content">your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Veteran craftsmen of Byblos were on board</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.27.9"><span class="content">as shipwrights to caulk your seams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.27.9"><span class="content">All the ships of the sea and their sailors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.27.9"><span class="content">came alongside to trade for your wares.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.27.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Men of Persia, Lydia and Put</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.27.10"><span class="content">served as soldiers in your army.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.27.10"><span class="content">They hung their shields and helmets on your walls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.27.10"><span class="content">bringing you splendor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Men of Arvad and Helek</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.27.11"><span class="content">guarded your walls on every side;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.27.11"><span class="content">men of Gammad</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.27.11"><span class="content">were in your towers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.27.11"><span class="content">They hung their shields around your walls;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.27.11"><span class="content">they brought your beauty to perfection.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin and lead for your merchandise.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Greece, Tubal and Meshek did business with you; they traded human beings and articles of bronze for your wares.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Men of Beth Togarmah exchanged chariot horses, cavalry horses and mules for your merchandise.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.27.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The men of Rhodes</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:15 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Dedan</span></span></span><span class="content"> traded with you, and many coastlands were your customers; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.27.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Aram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:16 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac </span><span class="fqa">Edom</span></span></span><span class="content"> did business with you because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple fabric, embroidered work, fine linen, coral and rubies for your merchandise.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.27.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Judah and Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith and confections,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:17 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> honey, olive oil and balm for your wares.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.27.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Damascus did business with you because of your many products and great wealth of goods. They offered wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and casks of wine from Izal in exchange for your wares: wrought iron, cassia and calamus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.27.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Dedan traded in saddle blankets with you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.27.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers; they did business with you in lambs, rams and goats.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.27.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your merchandise they exchanged the finest of all kinds of spices and precious stones, and gold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.27.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Harran, Kanneh and Eden and merchants of Sheba, Ashur and Kilmad traded with you. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.27.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">In your marketplace they traded with you beautiful garments, blue fabric, embroidered work and multicolored rugs with cords twisted and tightly knotted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.27.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.27.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The ships of Tarshish serve</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.27.25"><span class="content">as carriers for your wares.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.27.25"><span class="content">You are filled with heavy cargo</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.27.25"><span class="content">as you sail the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.27.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.27.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Your oarsmen take you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.27.26"><span class="content">out to the high seas.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.27.26"><span class="content">But the east wind will break you to pieces</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.27.26"><span class="content">far out at sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.27.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.27.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Your wealth, merchandise and wares,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.27.27"><span class="content">your mariners, sailors and shipwrights,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.27.27"><span class="content">your merchants and all your soldiers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.27.27"><span class="content">and everyone else on board</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.27.27"><span class="content">will sink into the heart of the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.27.27"><span class="content">on the day of your shipwreck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.27.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.27.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The shorelands will quake</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.27.28"><span class="content">when your sailors cry out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.27.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.27.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">All who handle the oars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.27.29"><span class="content">will abandon their ships;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.27.29"><span class="content">the mariners and all the sailors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.27.29"><span class="content">will stand on the shore.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.27.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.27.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">They will raise their voice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.27.30"><span class="content">and cry bitterly over you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.27.30"><span class="content">they will sprinkle dust on their heads</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.27.30"><span class="content">and roll in ashes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.27.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.27.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">They will shave their heads because of you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.27.31"><span class="content">and will put on sackcloth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.27.31"><span class="content">They will weep over you with anguish of soul</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.27.31"><span class="content">and with bitter mourning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.27.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.27.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">As they wail and mourn over you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.27.32"><span class="content">they will take up a lament concerning you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.27.32"><span class="content">&#8220;Who was ever silenced like Tyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.27.32"><span class="content">surrounded by the sea?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.27.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.27.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When your merchandise went out on the seas,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.27.33"><span class="content">you satisfied many nations;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.27.33"><span class="content">with your great wealth and your wares</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.27.33"><span class="content">you enriched the kings of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.27.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.27.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Now you are shattered by the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.27.34"><span class="content">in the depths of the waters;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.27.34"><span class="content">your wares and all your company</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.27.34"><span class="content">have gone down with you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.27.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EZK.27.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">All who live in the coastlands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EZK.27.35"><span class="content">are appalled at you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EZK.27.35"><span class="content">their kings shudder with horror</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EZK.27.35"><span class="content">and their faces are distorted with fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EZK.27.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="EZK.27.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The merchants among the nations scoff at you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="EZK.27.36"><span class="content">you have come to a horrible end</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="EZK.27.36"><span class="content">and will be no more.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">88</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 88</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 88:1-18 is numbered 88:2-19.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">mahalath leannoth.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Possibly a tune, &#8220;The Suffering of Affliction&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Heman the Ezrahite.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you are the God who saves me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"><span class="content">day and night I cry out to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">May my prayer come before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"><span class="content">turn your ear to my cry.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I am overwhelmed with troubles</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"><span class="content">and my life draws near to death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I am counted among those who go down to the pit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"><span class="content">I am like one without strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I am set apart with the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">like the slain who lie in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">whom you remember no more,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">who are cut off from your care.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have put me in the lowest pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"><span class="content">in the darkest depths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your wrath lies heavily on me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"><span class="content">you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">88:7 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 10.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You have taken from me my closest friends</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="content">and have made me repulsive to them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="content">I am confined and cannot escape;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">my eyes are dim with grief.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="content">I call to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, every day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="content">I spread out my hands to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do you show your wonders to the dead?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"><span class="content">Do their spirits rise up and praise you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Is your love declared in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"><span class="content">your faithfulness in Destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">88:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Abaddon</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"><span class="content">or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But I cry to you for help, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"><span class="content">in the morning my prayer comes before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Why, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do you reject me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"><span class="content">and hide your face from me?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">From my youth I have suffered and been close to death;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"><span class="content">I have borne your terrors and am in despair.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your wrath has swept over me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"><span class="content">your terrors have destroyed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All day long they surround me like a flood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"><span class="content">they have completely engulfed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.88.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You have taken from me friend and neighbor&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.88.18"><span class="content">darkness is my closest friend.</span></span></div>
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