Ezekiel 27:2-3

27:2 “You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre. ¹  27:3 Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance ²  of the sea, ³  merchant to the peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfectly beautiful.”

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¹ tn Heb “lift up over Tyre a lament.”

² tn Heb “entrances.” The plural noun may reflect the fact that Tyre had two main harbors.

³ sn Rome, another economic power, is described in a similar way in Rev 17:1.