Now, you son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
Now, you son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;
You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;
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 different sorts of merchandise in which she trafficked. The places and the imports are as regularly entered here as they could have been in a European custom-house.
27:2 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.