Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 27:2
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
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.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 2. 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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Pen a mournful narrative of Tyres fall, tell the world what she was, and what she is come to; both city and citizens too.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
2. lamentationa funeraldirge, eulogizing her great attributes, to make the contrast thegreater between her former and her latter state.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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 funerals, in which they said all they could in praise of the dead, and made very doleful lamentations for them: this the prophet was to do in a prophetic manner, for the confirmation of what was prophesied of by him; and it may teach us, that even wicked men are to be pitied, when in distress and calamity.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2. A lamentation Rather, dirge. (See also Eze 19:1; Eze 26:17; Eze 28:12; Eze 32:2.) So full of lifelike detail is this “dirge” that Dr. Plumptre can say, “Ezekiel, we must believe, had at some time or other in his life trod the sinful streets of the great city and noted the mingled crowd of many nations, in many costumes that he met there, just as we infer from Dante’s vivid descriptions of the dockyards of Venice ( Inferno, Eze 21:7-15) that he had visited that city.”
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Eze 27:2. Take up a lamentation, &c. This alludes to the melancholy songs used at funerals, concerning which we spoke in our comment on the Lamentations; and wherein the women recounted every thing which was valuable or praise-worthy in the deceased, and then lamented his loss. Though indeed the prophet dwells more upon the punishment denounced against this place, than in deploring its calamity, and rather excites terror than pity; yet, notwithstanding this, he follows the plan and manner of those funeral dirges. For he recounts, as is usual in those compositions, the former glory, power, and riches of Tyre, and, by means of the contrast augments the greatness of her calamities. See Bishop Lowth’s 23rd Prelection.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Eze 27:2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
Ver. 2. Take up a lamentation for Tyrus. ] Fitly here compared to a goodly ship, a and her desolation to a dismal shipwreck. Theodoret’s note on the text is, that when we correct sinners, or threaten them, it should be done with commiseration and compassion. Here we have God’s own example for it.
“ Ille dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox. ”
a Apud Horat. Resp. navis nomine significatur. – Carm. lib. i. od. 14.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
son of man. See note on Eze 2:1,
Tyrus. See note on Eze 26:2.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Eze 27:32, Eze 19:1, Eze 26:17, Eze 28:12, Eze 32:2, Jer 7:20, Jer 9:10, Jer 9:17-20, Amo 5:1, Amo 5:16
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
THE DIRGE OF TYRE
A lamentation for Cyrus.
Eze 27:2
I. This is a funeral dirge over Tyre.She is compared to a vast ship, for the construction and manning of which all nations are laid under contribution. Her snow-white sails, her gay pennons, her skilled pilots, her renowned warriors, her widespread traffic, seem to guarantee a prosperous voyage; but her rowers bring her into very great waters, and she is broken in the heart of the seas. Tyre, with all her worldly advantages, and the spiritual ones which accrued from her close proximity to Israel, had not sought Gods favour; oppression and injustice were in her midst; therefore her apparent sources of wealth and stability failed to arrest her decay, and she fell into the midst of the seas in the day of her ruin (Eze 27:27).
It was strikingly said of Napoleon Bonaparte: He did all that in him lay to live and thrive without moral principle. But the eternal law baulked and ruined him; and the result in a million of experiments will be the same. Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. Let our great mercantile nation, the Tyre of modern times, beware. She must rest her security, not on her navies or material resources, not even on the bravery or industry of her sons, but on the favour of God and the righteousness which alone exalteth a nation.
II. How often it happens that individual souls pass through experiences like those described here.They start in life richly dowered with every advantage that rank, wealth, and education can confer, but their career is one of bitter disappointment; their companions or their own passions, their love of pleasure and the absence of self-control, bring them into great waters, where they become irretrievably broken. Only One can arrest that fateHe Who slept through the night-storm till the disciples awoke Him: He arose and rebuked the fury of the elements, and upbraided them for their lack of faith.
Illustration
As their enemies behold the children of God, they are apt to suppose that there is no difference between them and others. They cannot see the Divine environment within which they live, and they suppose that they can easily work their will. They say, Behold these people are like other people; we have but to stretch out our hand, and can spoil them as a boy the nests of spring. Then they discover that they have another to reckon with, and that God will arise to plead the cause of His people and to execute judgment upon their oppressors. Not in vain did He say to Abraham, and through him to all that believe: I will bless him that blesseth thee, and curse him that curseth thee.
Fuente: Church Pulpit Commentary
Eze 27:2-4. Take up a lamentation for Tyrus This alludes to the mournful lamentations used at funerals, wherein the mourning women recounted every thing that was valuable or praiseworthy belonging to the deceased, and then lamented the loss of him; and say, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea That art a sea-port, fitted by situation for carrying on trade with many countries: see Isa 23:1. Thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty Thou hast boasted that thou hast every thing to render thee complete, and that there is nothing wanting to thee. Thy borders are in the midst of the seas Thy dominions are not confined to the land, but extend far into the sea; where thou commandest without control, and sailest from place to place without interruption, to bring home thy riches. Thy builders have perfected thy beauty Undoubtedly such a city as Tyre, which had store of riches, was built with great magnificence and beauty; but the following verses seem to show, that these words are chiefly to be understood of the builders of their ships, wherein the chief strength and glory of the Tyrians were placed.