Ezekiel 27:2

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And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;

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  • Jer 9:10 : 10 Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.
  • Jer 9:17-20 : 17 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come: 18 Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water. 19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house. 20 But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.
  • Ezek 19:1 : 1 Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,
  • Ezek 28:12 : 12 Son of man, make a song of grief for the king of Tyre, and say to him, This is what the Lord has said: You are all-wise and completely beautiful;
  • Ezek 32:2 : 2 Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.
  • Amos 5:1 : 1 Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.
  • Amos 5:16 : 16 So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.
  • Ezek 26:17 : 17 And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say to you, What destruction has come on you, how are you cut off from the sea, the noted town, which was strong in the sea, she and her people, causing the fear of them to come on all the dry land!
  • Ezek 27:32 : 32 And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea?
  • Jer 7:20 : 20 So this is what the Lord God has said: See, my wrath and my passion will be let loose on this place, on man and beast, and on the trees of the field, and on the produce of the earth; it will be burning and will not be put out.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 27:3-4
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    3And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of the sea, trading for the peoples with the great sea-lands, these are the words of the Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship completely beautiful.

    4Your builders have made your outlines in the heart of the seas, they have made you completely beautiful.

  • Ezek 28:11-12
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    11Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    12Son of man, make a song of grief for the king of Tyre, and say to him, This is what the Lord has said: You are all-wise and completely beautiful;

  • Ezek 27:1
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    1The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

  • Ezek 27:30-33
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    30And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

    31And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow.

    32And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea?

    33When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods.

  • Ezek 26:1-5
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    1Now in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she who was the doorway of the peoples is broken; she is turned over to them; she who was full is made waste;

    3For this cause the Lord has said, See, I am against you, O Tyre, and will send up a number of nations against you as the sea sends up its waves.

    4And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock

    5She will be a place for the stretching out of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have said it, says the Lord: and her goods will be given over to the nations.

  • Ezek 26:14-18
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    14I will make you an uncovered rock: you will be a place for the stretching out of nets; there will be no building you up again: for I the Lord have said it, says the Lord.

    15This is what the Lord has said to Tyre: Will not the sea-lands be shaking at the sound of your fall, when the wounded give cries of pain, when men are put to the sword in you?

    16Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their high seats, and put away their robes and take off their clothing of needlework: they will put on the clothing of grief, they will take their seats on the earth, shaking with fear every minute and overcome with wonder at you.

    17And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say to you, What destruction has come on you, how are you cut off from the sea, the noted town, which was strong in the sea, she and her people, causing the fear of them to come on all the dry land!

    18Now the sea-lands will be shaking in the day of your fall; and all the ships on the sea will be overcome with fear at your going.

  • Ezek 28:1-2
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    78%

    1The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

    2Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God:

  • Isa 23:1
    77%

    1The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.

  • Ezek 28:20-21
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    20And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    21Son of man, let your face be turned to Zidon, and be a prophet against it, and say,

  • Isa 23:5-6
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    5When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre.

    6Go over to Tarshish; give cries of sorrow, O men of the sea-land.

  • Amos 1:9-10
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    9These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they gave up all the people prisoners to Edom, without giving a thought to the brothers' agreement between them.

    10And I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, burning up its great houses.

  • Ezek 27:25-27
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    25Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas.

    26Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.

    27Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.

  • Ezek 21:1-2
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    73%

    1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let your words be dropped in the direction of her holy place, and be a prophet against the land of Israel;

  • Ezek 4:1
    72%

    1And you, son of man, take a back and put it before you and on it make a picture of a town, even Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 22:1
    72%

    1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 27:9
    72%

    9The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods.

  • Ezek 26:7
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    7For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will send up from the north Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre, with horses and war-carriages and with an army and great numbers of people.

  • Ezek 30:1
    72%

    1The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

  • Ezek 32:2
    72%

    2Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.

  • Isa 23:14-15
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    72%

    14Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste.

    15And it will be in that day that Tyre will go out of mind for seventy years, that is, the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre as in the song of the loose woman.

  • Ezek 21:6
    71%

    6Make sounds of grief, son of man; with body bent and a bitter heart make sounds of grief before their eyes.

  • Isa 23:8
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    8By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?

  • Ezek 11:4
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    4For this cause be a prophet against them, be a prophet, O son of man.

  • Zech 9:3
    71%

    3And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.

  • Amos 5:1
    71%

    1Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.

  • Ezek 29:17
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    17Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 27:7
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    7The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade.

  • Ezek 19:1
    71%

    1Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,

  • Ezek 32:18
    71%

    18Son of man, let your voice be loud in sorrow for the people of Egypt and send them down, even you and the daughters of the nations; I will send them down into the lowest parts of the earth, with those who go down into the underworld.