271 Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me saying , 2 "And you, son of man , take up a lamentation over Tyre ; 3 and say to Tyre , who dwells at the entrance to the sea , merchant of the peoples to many coastlands , 'Thus says the Lord GOD , "O Tyre , you have said , 'I am perfect in beauty .' 4 "Your borders are in the heart of the seas ; Your builders have perfected your beauty . 5 "They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir ; They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. 6 "Of oaks from Bashan they have made your oars ; With ivory they have inlaid your deck of boxwood from the coastlands of Cyprus . 7 "Your sail was of fine embroidered linen from Egypt So that it became your distinguishing mark ; Your awning was blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah . 8 "The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers ; Your wise men , O Tyre , were aboard; they were your pilots . 9 "The elders of Gebal and her wise men were with you repairing your seams ; All the ships of the sea and their sailors were with you in order to deal in your merchandise . 10 " Persia and Lud and Put were in your army , your men of war . They hung shield and helmet in you; they set forth your splendor . 11 "The sons of Arvad and your army were on your walls , all around , and the Gammadim were in your towers . They hung their shields on your walls all around ; they perfected your beauty . 12 "Tarshish was your customer because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth ; with silver , iron , tin and lead they paid for your wares . 13 " Javan , Tubal and Meshech , they were your traders ; with the lives of men and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise . 14 "Those from Beth-togarmah e gave horses and war horses and mules for your wares . 15 "The sons of Dedan were your traders . Many coastlands were your market ; ivory tusks and ebony they brought as your payment . 16 " Aram was your customer because of the abundance of your goods ; they paid for your wares with emeralds , purple , embroidered work , fine linen , coral and rubies . 17 "Judah and the land of Israel , they were your traders ; with the wheat of Minnith , cakes , honey , oil and balm they paid for your merchandise . 18 " Damascus was your customer because of the abundance of your goods , because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth , because of the wine of Helbon and white wool . 19 "Vedan and Javan paid for your wares from Uzal ; wrought iron , cassia and sweet cane were among your merchandise . 20 " Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding . 21 " Arabia and all the princes of Kedar , they were your customers for lambs , rams and goats ; for these they were your customers . 22 "The traders of Sheba and Raamah , they traded with you; they paid for your wares with the best of all kinds of spices , and with all kinds of precious stones and gold . 23 "Haran , Canneh , Eden , the traders of Sheba , Asshur and Chilmad traded with you. 24 "They traded with you in choice garments , in clothes of blue and embroidered work , and in carpets of many colors and tightly wound cords , which were among your merchandise . 25 "The ships of Tarshish were the carriers for your merchandise . And you were filled and were very glorious In the heart of the seas .
26 "Your rowers have brought you Into great waters ; The east wind has broken you In the heart of the seas . 27 "Your wealth , your wares , your merchandise , Your sailors and your pilots , Your repairers of seams , your dealers in merchandise And all your men of war who are in you, With all your company that is in your midst , Will fall into the heart of the seas On the day of your overthrow . 28 "At the sound of the cry of your pilots The pasture lands will shake . 29 "All who handle the oar , The sailors and all the pilots of the sea Will come down from their ships ; They will stand on the land , 30 And they will make their voice heard over you And will cry bitterly . They will cast dust on their heads , They will wallow in ashes . 31 "Also they will make themselves bald e for you And gird themselves with sackcloth ; And they will weep for you in bitterness of soul With bitter mourning . 32 "Moreover, in their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you And lament over you: 'Who is like Tyre , Like her who is silent in the midst of the sea ? 33 'When your wares went out from the seas , You satisfied many peoples ; With the abundance of your wealth and your merchandise You enriched the kings of earth . 34 'Now that you are broken by the seas In the depths of the waters , Your merchandise and all your company Have fallen in the midst of you. 35 'All the inhabitants of the coastlands Are appalled at you, And their kings are horribly afraid ; They are troubled in countenance . 36 'The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; You have become terrified And you will cease to be forever e .' ""'
281 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying , 2 "Son of man , say to the leader of Tyre , 'Thus says the Lord GOD , "Because your heart is lifted up And you have said , ' I am a god , I sit in the seat of gods In the heart of the seas '; Yet you are a man and not God , Although you make your heart like the heart of God - 3 Behold , you are wiser than Daniel ; There is no e secret that is a match for you. 4 "By your wisdom and understanding You have acquired riches for yourself And have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries . 5 "By your great wisdom , by your trade You have increased your riches And your heart is lifted up because of your riches - 6 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD , 'Because you have made your heart Like the heart of God , 7 Therefore , behold , I will bring strangers upon you, The most ruthless of the nations . And they will draw their swords Against the beauty of your wisdom And defile your splendor . 8 'They will bring you down to the pit , And you will die the death of those who are slain In the heart of the seas . 9 'Will you still say , "I am a god ," In the presence of your slayer , Though you are a man and not God , In the hands of those who wound you? 10 'You will die the death of the uncircumcised By the hand of strangers , For I have spoken !' declares the Lord GOD !""'
11 Again the word of the Lord came to me saying , 12 "Son of man , take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord GOD , "You had the seal of perfection , Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty . 13 "You were in Eden , the garden of God ; Every precious stone was your covering : The ruby , the topaz and the diamond ; The beryl , the onyx and the jasper ; The lapis lazuli , the turquoise and the emerald ; And the gold , the workmanship of your settings and sockets , Was in you. On the day that you were created They were prepared . 14 "You were the anointed cherub who covers , And I placed you there. You were on the holy mountain of God ; You walked in the midst of the stones of fire . 15 "You were blameless in your ways From the day you were created Until unrighteousness was found in you. 16 "By the abundance of your trade You were internally filled with violence , And you sinned ; Therefore I have cast you as profane From the mountain of God . And I have destroyed you, O covering cherub , From the midst of the stones of fire . 17 "Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty ; You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor . I cast you to the ground ; I put you before kings , That they may see you. 18 "By the multitude of your iniquities , In the unrighteousness of your trade You profaned your sanctuaries . Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you; It has consumed you, And I have turned you to ashes on the earth In the eyes of all who see you. 19 "All who know you among the peoples Are appalled at you; You have become terrified And you will cease to be forever e .""'
20 And the word of the Lord came to me saying , 21 "Son of man , set your face toward Sidon , prophesy against her 22 and say , 'Thus says the Lord GOD , "Behold , I am against you, O Sidon , And I will be glorified in your midst . Then they will know that I am the Lord when I execute judgments in her, And I will manifest My holiness in her. 23 "For I will send pestilence to her And blood to her streets , And the wounded will fall in her midst By the sword upon her on every side ; Then they will know that I am the Lord . 24 "And there will be no more for the house of Israel a prickling brier or a painful thorn from any round about them who scorned them; then they will know that I am the Lord GOD ." 25 'Thus says the Lord GOD , "When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered , and will manifest My holiness in them in the sight of the nations , then they will live in their land which I gave to My servant Jacob . 26 "They will live in it securely ; and they will build houses , plant vineyards and live securely when I execute judgments upon all who scorn them round about them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God .""'
291 In the tenth year , in the tenth month, on the twelfth e of the month , the word of the Lord came to me saying , 2 "Son of man , set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt . 3 "Speak and say , 'Thus says the Lord GOD , "Behold , I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt , The great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers , That has said , 'My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.' 4 "I will put hooks in your jaws And make the fish of your rivers cling to your scales . And I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers , And all the fish of your rivers will cling to your scales . 5 "I will abandon you to the wilderness , you and all the fish of your rivers ; You will fall on the open field ; you will not be brought together or gathered . I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky . 6 "Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the Lord , Because they have been only a staff made of reed to the house of Israel . 7 "When they took hold of you with the hand , You broke and tore all their hands ; And when they leaned on you, You broke and made all their loins quake ."
8 'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD , "Behold , I will bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast . 9 "The land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste . Then they will know that I am the Lord . Because you said , 'The Nile is mine, and I have made it,' 10 therefore , behold , I am against you and against your rivers , and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation , from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of Ethiopia . 11 "A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years . 12 "So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands . And her cities , in the midst of cities that are laid waste , will be desolate forty years ; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands ." 13 'For thus says the Lord GOD , "At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom e they were scattered . 14 "I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of Pathros , to the land of their origin , and there they will be a lowly kingdom . 15 "It will be the lowest of the kingdoms , and it will never again lift itself up above the nations . And I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations . 16 "And it will never again be the confidence of the house of Israel , bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD .""'
17 Now in the twenty-seventh e year , in the first month, on the first of the month , the word of the Lord came to me saying , 18 "Son of man , Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre ; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare . But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it." 19 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD , "Behold , I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon . And he will carry off her wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder ; and it will be wages for his army . 20 "I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor which he performed , because they acted for Me," declares the Lord GOD . 21 "On that day I will make a horn sprout for the house of Israel , and I will open e your mouth in their midst . Then they will know that I am the Lord ."
31 In the same way , you wives , be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word , they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives , 2 as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior . 3 Your adornment must not be merely external -braiding the hair , and wearing gold jewelry , or putting on dresses ; 4 but let it be the hidden person of the heart , with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit , which is precious in the sight of God . 5 For in this way in former times the holy women also , who hoped in God , used to adorn themselves , being submissive to their own husbands ; 6 just as Sarah obeyed Abraham , calling him lord , and you have become her children if you do what is right without e being frightened by any fear . 7 You husbands in the same way , live with your wives in an understanding way , as with someone weaker , since she is a woman ; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life , so that your prayers will not be hindered .
8 To sum up, all of you be harmonious , sympathetic , brotherly , kindhearted , and humble in spirit ; 9 not returning evil for evil or insult for insult , but giving a blessing instead ; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing . 10 For, " THE ONE WHO DESIRES LIFE , TO LOVE AND SEE GOOD DAYS , MUST KEEP HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL AND HIS LIPS FROM SPEAKING DECEIT . 11 " HE MUST TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD ; HE MUST SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT. 12 " FOR THE EYES OF THE Lord ARE TOWARD THE RIGHTEOUS , AND HIS EARS ATTEND TO THEIR PRAYER , BUT THE FACE OF THE Lord IS AGAINST THOSE WHO DO EVIL ." 13 Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good ? 14 But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness , you are blessed . AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION , AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED , 15 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts , always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence ;
16 and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered , those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame . 17 For it is better , if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong .
18 For Christ also died for sins once for all , the just for the unjust , so that He might bring us to God , having been put to death in the flesh , but made alive in the spirit ; 19 in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison , 20 who once were disobedient , when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah , during the construction of the ark , in which a few , that is, eight persons , were brought safely through the water .
21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you- not the removal of dirt from the flesh , but an appeal to God for a good conscience -through the resurrection of Jesus Christ , 22 who is at the right hand of God , having gone into heaven , after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.
