Ezekiel 27:2

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…

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…

Here, I. The prophet is ordered to take up a lamentation for Tyrus, Eze 27:2. It was yet in the height of its prosperity, and there appeared not the least symptom of its decay; yet the prophet must…

Eze 27:1-11. Tyre as a gallant ship

2. For the phrase "take up a lamentation" cf. Eze 19:1; Eze 26:17; Eze 28:12; Eze 32:2. The word is technical for the dirge.