Ezequiel 27

1Me fue dirigida la palabra de Yahvé, en estos términos:

2“Tú, hijo de hombre, canta sobre Tiro una elegía;

3y di a Tiro: Oh tú que estás sentada a la entrada del mar y comerciabas con los pueblos de muchas costas, así dice Yahvé, el Señor:

4Tiro, tú decías: «Yo soy de perfecta belleza». Tus dominios están en el corazón del piélago; tus constructores hicieron perfecta tu hermosura.

5De los abetos de Sanir fabricaron toda tu armazón; para hacer tu mástil tomaron un cedro del Líbano.

6de las encinas de Basán hicieron tus remos; labraron tus bancos de marfil con incrustaciones de madera de boj, traída de las islas de Kitim.

7De lino recamado de Egipto eran tus velas, que te servían de bandera; jacinto y púrpura de las islas de Elisá formaban tu toldo.

8Los habitantes de Sidón y de Arvad eran tus remeros, y tus sabios que estaban en ti, oh Tiro, te servían de pilotos.

9Los ancianos y los más peritos de Gebal te asistían para reparar tus hendiduras; todas las naves del mar, con sus marineros, estaban a tu servicio para el intercambio de tus mercaderías.

10En tu ejército servían como guerreros tuyos los hombres de Persia, de Lidia y de Libia, que colgaron en ti sus escudos y morriones; y ellos te dieron esplendor.

11Los hijos de Arvad y tu ejército, velaban sobre tus muros en todo tu contorno; y los de Gamad que estaban en tus torres, colgaban sus escudos alrededor de tus muros, coronando tu belleza.

12Tarsis traficaba contigo porque en ti había abundancia de toda suerte de riqueza; con plata, hierro, estaño y plomo pagaban tus mercaderías.

13Javán, Tubal y Mósoc comerciaban contigo; traían a sus mercados esclavos y objetos de bronce.

14Los de la casa de Togormá te daban a trueque de tus mercancías caballos, corceles y mulos.

15Los hijos de Dedán hacían negocios contigo; muchas islas formaban tu clientela; te daban en cambio colmillos de marfil y ébano.

16Siria ejercía el comercio contigo, a causa de la multitud de tus productos; cambiaban tus mercaderías por carbunclo, púrpura, obra recamada, lino fino, corales y rubíes.

17Judá y la tierra de Israel eran tus clientes, llevaban a tus mercados trigo de Minit, perfumes, miel, aceite, y bálsamo.

18Damasco tenía intercambio contigo, (pagándote) la abundancia de tus productos y la multitud de todas tus riquezas con vino de Helbón y lana de Sáhar.

19Vedán y Javán de Uzal daban por tus mercaderías hierro labrado; casia y caña aromática había en tus mercados.

20Dedán te vendía sillas de montar;

21Arabia y todos los príncipes de Cedar mantenían tráfico contigo, dándote en cambio corderos, carneros y machos cabríos.

22Los mercaderes de Sabá y de Rama comerciaban contigo; con los más exquisitos aromas, con toda suerte de piedras preciosas y con oro pagaban ellos tus manufacturas.

23Harán, Cané y Edén, los comerciantes de Sabá, Asiria y Quelmad traficaban contigo;

24te vendían objetos de lujo y mantos de jacinto recamado; tapices de diversos colores, liados con cuerdas fuertes, se hallaban entre tus mercaderías.

25Las naves de Tarsis eran tus intermediarios para (mantener) tu tráfico. Así te henchiste y te hiciste muy gloriosa en medio del mar.

26Pero aunque tus remeros te condujeron por muchas aguas, el viento solano te ha destrozado en el seno del mar.

27Tus riquezas, tus mercancías, los productos de tu mercado, tus marineros y tus pilotos, tus calafates y los agentes de tu tráfico, todos los hombres de guerra que en ti se hallaban y todo el gentío que estaba en medio de ti, cayeron en el abismo del mar el día de tu caída.

28Al estruendo de los gritos de tus pilotos se estremecerán las playas,

29y todos los que manejan el remo, bajarán de sus naves; los marineros y todos los pilotos del mar, saltarán a tierra.

30Levantarán su voz sobre ti y se lamentarán amargamente; echarán polvo sobre sus cabezas y se revolcarán en ceniza.

31Por tu causa se raparán la cabeza y se ceñirán de cilicio; y te llorarán con amargura de alma, con dolor amarguísimo.

32En su dolor entonarán sobre ti una elegía cantando de ti: «¿Quién como Tiro? ¿Quién como la que (ahora) yace silenciosa en medio del mar?

33Con las ganancias de tu comercio marítimo hartabas a muchos pueblos; con la abundancia de tus riquezas y de tus mercancías enriquecías a los reyes de la tierra.

34Quebrantada por el mar estás ahora, sepultada en lo profundo de las aguas, ha cesado tu comercio y todo el gentío que te llenaba.

35Todos los habitantes de las islas se espantan de ti; sus reyes quedan atónitos, se les ha demudado el rostro.

36Los comerciantes de los pueblos te silban; has venido a ser un objeto de pasmo y ya no existirás por los siglos».”

1Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens:

2Tu ergo, fili hominis, assume super Tyrum lamentum:

3et dices Tyro, quæ habitat in introitu maris, negotiationi populorum ad insulas multas: [Hæc dicit Dominus Deus: O Tyre, tu dixisti: Perfecti decoris ego sum,

4et in corde maris sita. Finitimi tui qui te ædificaverunt, impleverunt decorem tuum:

5abietibus de Sanir exstruxerunt te cum omnibus tabulatis maris: cedrum de Libano tulerunt ut facerent tibi malum.

6Quercus de Basan dolaverunt in remos tuos, et transtra tua fecerunt tibi ex ebore indico, et prætoriola de insulis Italiæ.

7Byssus varia de Ægypto texta est tibi in velum ut poneretur in malo: hyacinthus et purpura de insulis Elisa facta sunt operimentum tuum.

8Habitatores Sidonis et Aradii fuerunt remiges tui: sapientes tui, Tyre, facti sunt gubernatores tui.

9Senes Giblii et prudentes ejus habuerunt nautas ad ministerium variæ supellectilis tuæ: omnes naves maris, et nautæ earum, fuerunt in populo negotiationis tuæ.

10Persæ, et Lydii, et Libyes erant in exercitu tuo viri bellatores tui: clypeum et galeam suspenderunt in te pro ornatu tuo.

11Filii Aradii cum exercitu tuo erant super muros tuos in circuitu: sed et Pigmæi qui erant in turribus tuis, pharetras suas suspenderunt in muris tuis per gyrum: ipsi compleverunt pulchritudinem tuam.

12Carthaginenses negotiatores tui, a multitudine cunctarum divitiarum, argento, ferro, stanno, plumboque repleverunt nundinas tuas.

13Græcia, Thubal, et Mosoch, ipsi institores tui: mancipia, et vasa ærea advexerunt populo tuo.

14De domo Thogorma, equos, et equites, et mulos adduxerunt ad forum tuum.

15Filii Dedan negotiatores tui; insulæ multæ, negotiatio manus tuæ: dentes eburneos et hebeninos commutaverunt in pretio tuo.

16Syrus negotiator tuus propter multitudinem operum tuorum: gemmam, et purpuram, et scutulata, et byssum, et sericum, et chodchod proposuerunt in mercatu tuo.

17Juda et terra Israël, ipsi institores tui in frumento primo: balsamum, et mel, et oleum, et resinam proposuerunt in nundinis tuis.

18Damascenus negotiator tuus in multitudine operum tuorum, in multitudine diversarum opum, in vino pingui, in lanis coloris optimi.

19Dan, et Græcia, et Mosel, in nundinis tuis proposuerunt ferrum fabrefactum: stacte et calamus in negotiatione tua.

20Dedan institores tui in tapetibus ad sedendum.

21Arabia et universi principes Cedar, ipsi negotiatores manus tuæ: cum agnis, et arietibus, et hædis, venerunt ad te negotiatores tui.

22Venditores Saba et Reema, ipsi negotiatores tui: cum universis primis aromatibus, et lapide pretioso, et auro, quod proposuerunt in mercatu tuo.

23Haran, et Chene, et Eden, negotiatores tui; Saba, Assur, et Chelmad venditores tui.

24Ipsi negotiatores tui multifariam, involucris hyacinthi, et polymitorum, gazarumque pretiosarum, quæ obvolutæ et astrictæ erant funibus: cedros quoque habebant in negotiationibus tuis.

25Naves maris, principes tui in negotiatione tua: et repleta es, et glorificata nimis in corde maris.]

26[In aquis multis adduxerunt te remiges tui: ventus auster contrivit te in corde maris.

27Divitiæ tuæ, et thesauri tui, et multiplex instrumentum tuum: nautæ tui et gubernatores tui, qui tenebant supellectilem tuam, et populo tuo præerant: viri quoque bellatores tui, qui erant in te, cum universa multitudine tua quæ est in medio tui, cadent in corde maris in die ruinæ tuæ:

28a sonitu clamoris gubernatorum tuorum conturbabuntur classes.

29Et descendent de navibus suis omnes qui tenebant remum: nautæ et universi gubernatores maris in terra stabunt.

30Et ejulabunt super te voce magna: et clamabunt amare, et superjacient pulverem capitibus suis, et cinere conspergentur.

31Et radent super te calvitium, et accingentur ciliciis: et plorabunt te in amaritudine animæ, ploratu amarissimo.

32Et assument super te carmen lugubre, et plangent te: Quæ est ut Tyrus, quæ obmutuit in medio maris?

33Quæ in exitu negotiationum tuarum de mari implesti populos multos: in multitudine divitiarum tuarum, et populorum tuorum, ditasti reges terræ.

34Nunc contrita es a mari: in profundis aquarum opes tuæ, et omnis multitudo tua quæ erat in medio tui, ceciderunt.

35Universi habitatores insularum obstupuerunt super te, et reges earum omnes tempestate perculsi mutaverunt vultus.

36Negotiatores populorum sibilaverunt super te: ad nihilum deducta es, et non eris usque in perpetuum.]

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

2Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre:

3And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect beauty,

4And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty:

5With fir trees of Sanir they have built thee with all sea planks: they have taken cedars from Libanus to make thee masts.

6They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they have made thee benches of Indian ivory and cabins with things brought from the islands of Italy.

7Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made thy covering.

8The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots.

9The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.

10The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy ornament.

11The men of Arad were with thy army upon thy walls round about: the Pygmeans also that were in thy towers, hung up their quivers on thy walls round about: they perfected thy beauty.

12The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead.

13Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants: they brought to thy people slaves and vessels of brass.

14From the house of Thogorma they brought horses, and horsemen, and mules to thy market.

15The men of Dedan were thy merchants: many islands were the traffic of thy hand, they exchanged for thy price teeth of ivory and ebony.

16The Syrian was thy merchant: by reason of the multitude of thy works, they set forth precious stones, and purple, and broidered works, and fine linen, and silk, and chodchod in thy market.

17Juda and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants with the best corn: they set forth balm, and honey, and oil, and rosin in thy fairs.

18The men of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of thy works, in the multitude of divers riches, in rich wine, in wool of the best colour.

19Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.

20The men of Dedan were thy merchants in tapestry for seats.

21Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar, they were the merchants of thy hand: thy merchants came to thee with lambs, and rants, and kids.

22The sellers of Saba, and Reema, they were thy merchants: with all the best spices, and precious stones, and gold, which they set forth in thy market.

23Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy merchants; Saba, Assur, and Chelmad sold to thee.

24They were thy merchants in divers manners, with bales of blue cloth, and of embroidered work, and of precious riches, which were wrapped up and bound with cords: they had cedars also in thy merchandise.

25The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea.

26Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind hath broken thee in the heart of the sea.

27Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy manifold furniture, thy mariners, and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and were chief over thy people: thy men of war also, that were in thee, with all thy multitude that is in the midst of thee: shall fall in the heart of the sea in the day of thy ruin.

28Thy fleets shall be troubled at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

29And all that handled the oar shall come down from their ships: the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea shall stand upon the land:

30And they shall mourn over thee with a loud voice, and shall cry bitterly: and they shall cast up dust upon their heads, and shall be sprinkled with ashes.

31And they shall shave themselves bald for thee, and shall be girded with haircloth: and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of soul, with most bitter weeping.

32And they shall take up a mournful song for thee, and snail lament thee: What city is like Tyre, which is become silent in the midst of the sea?

33Which by thy merchandise that went from thee by sea didst fill many people: which by the multitude of thy riches, and of thy people didst enrich the kings of the earth.

34Now thou art destroyed by the sea, thy riches are in the bottom of the waters, and all the multitude that was in the midst of thee is fallen.

35All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at thee: and all their kings being struck with the storm have changed their countenance.

36The merchants of people have hissed at thee: thou art brought to nothing, and thou shalt never be any more.