And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρὸς μὲ λέγων,
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρὸς μὲ λέγων,
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation against Sor;
Καὶ σὺ υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου λάβε ἐπὶ Σὸρ θρῆνον,
and thou shalt say to Sor that dwells at the entrance of the sea, to the mart of the nations coming from many islands, Thus saith the Lord to Sor; Thou hast said, I have clothed myself with my beauty.
καὶ ἐρεῖς τῇ Σὸρ τῇ κατοικούσῃ ἐπὶ τῆς εἰσόδου τῆς θαλάσσης, τῷ ἐμπορίῳ τῶν λαῶν, ἀπὸ νήσων πολλῶν, τάδε λέγει Κύριος τῇ Σόρ,
In the heart of the sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim.
Σὺ εἶπας, ἐγὼ περιέθηκα ἐμαυτῇ κάλλος μου, ἐν καρδίᾳ θαλάσσης τῷ Βεελεὶμ υἱοί σου περιέθηκάν σοι κάλλος.
Cedar in Senir was employed for thee in building: boards of cypress timber were taken out of Libanus, and wood to make thee masts of fir.
Κέδρος ἐν Σενεὶρ ᾠκοδομήθη σοι, ταινίαι σανίδων κυπαρίσσου ἐκ τοῦ Λιβάνου ἐλήφθησαν, τοῦ ποιῆσαί σοι ἱστοὺς ἐλατίνους,
They made thine oars of wood out of the land of Basan; thy sacred utensils they made of ivory, thy shady houses of wood from the isles of Chetiim.
ἐκ τῆς Βασανίτιδος ἐποίησαν τὰς κώπας σου, τὰ ἱερά σου ἐποίησαν ἐξ ἐλέφαντος, οἴκους ἀλσώδεις ἀπὸ νήσων τῶν Χετιείμ.
Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied thy couch, to put honour upon thee, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the isles of Elisai; and they became thy coverings.
Βύσσος μετὰ ποικιλίας ἐξ Αἰγύπτου ἐγένετό σοι στρωμνὴ, τοῦ περιθεῖναί σοι δόξαν, καὶ περιβαλεῖν σε ὑάκινθον καὶ πορφύραν ἐκ τῶν νήσων Ἐλεισαὶ, καὶ ἐγένετο περιβόλαιά σου.
And thy princes were the dwellers in Sidon, and the Aradians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Sor, who were in thee, these were thy pilots.
Καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντές σου οἱ κατοικοῦντες Σιδῶνα, καὶ Ἀράδιοι ἐγένοντο κωπηλάται σου· οἱ σοφοί σου Σὸρ, οἳ ἦσαν ἐν σοὶ, οὗτοι κυβερνῆταί σου.
The elders of the Biblians, and their wise men, who were in thee, these helped thy counsel: and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for thee to the utmost west.
Οἱ πρεσβύτεροι Βιβλίων, καὶ οἱ σοφοὶ αὐτῶν, οἳ ἦσαν ἐν σοί, οὗτοι ἐνίσχυον τὴν βουλήν σου· καὶ πάντα τὰ πλοῖα τῆς θαλάσσης καὶ οἱ κωπηλάται αὐτῶν ἐγένοντό σοι ἐπὶ δυσμὰς δυσμῶν.
Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army: thy warriors hung in thee shields and helmets; these gave thee thy glory.
Πέρσαι, καὶ Λυδοὶ, καὶ Λίβυες ἦσαν ἐν τῇ δυνάμει σου, ἄνδρες πολεμισταί σου πέλτας καὶ περικεφαλαίας ἐκρέμασαν ἐν σοί, οὗτοι ἔδωκαν τὴν δόξαν σου.
The sons of the Aradians and thine army were upon thy walls; there were guards in thy towers: they hung their quivers on thy battlements round about; these completed thy beauty.
Υἱοὶ Ἀραδίων καὶ ἡ δύναμίς σου ἐπὶ τῶν τειχέων σου· φύλακες ἐν τοῖς πύργοις σου ἦσαν, τὰς φαρέτρας αὐτῶν ἐκρέμασαν ἐπὶ τῶν ὅρμων σου κύκλῳ, οὗτοι ἐτελείωσάν σου τὸ κάλλος.
The Carthaginians were thy merchants because of the abundance of all thy strength; they furnished thy market with silver, and gold, and iron, and tin, and lead.
Καρχηδόνιοι ἔμποροί σου ἀπὸ πλήθους πάσης ἰσχύος σου, ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον καὶ σίδηρον καὶ κασσίτερον καὶ μόλιβον ἔδωκαν τὴν ἀγοράν σου.
Greece, both the whole world, and the adjacent coasts, these traded with thee in the persons of men, and they gave as thy merchandise vessels of brass.
Ἡ Ἑλλὰς, καὶ ἡ σύμπασα, καὶ τὰ παρατείνοντα, οὗτοι ἐνεπορεύοντό σοι ἐν ψυχαῖς ἀνθρώπων, καὶ σκεύη χαλκᾶ ἔδωκαν τὴν ἐμπορίαν σου.
Out of the house of Thogarma horses and horsemen furnished thy market.
Ἐξ οἴκου Θογαρμὰ ἵπποι καὶ ἱππεῖς ἔδωκαν ἀγοράν σου.
The sons of the Rhodians were thy merchants; from the islands they multiplied thy merchandise, even elephants' teeth: and to them that came in thou didst return thy prices,
Υἱοὶ Ῥοδίων ἔμποροί σου, ἀπὸ νήσων ἐπλήθυναν τὴν ἐμπορίαν σου ὀδόντας ἐλεφαντίνους, καὶ τοῖς εἰσαγομένοις ἀντεδίδους τοὺς μισθούς σου,
even men as thy merchandise, from the multitude of thy trading population, myrrh and embroidered works from Tharsis: Ramoth also and Chorchor furnished thy market.
ἀνθρώπους ἐμπορίαν σου ἀπὸ πλήθους τοῦ συμμίκτου σου, στακτὴν καὶ ποικίλματα ἐκ Θαρσὶς, καὶ Ῥαμὸθ, καὶ Χορχὸρ ἔδωκαν τὴν ἀγοράν σου.
Juda and the children of Israel, these were thy merchants; in the sale of corn and ointments and cassia: and they gave the best honey, and oil, and resin, to thy trading population.
Ἰούδας καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ, οὗτοι ἔμποροί σου, ἐν πράσει σίτου καὶ μύρων καὶ κασίας, καὶ πρῶτον μέλι καὶ ἔλαιον καὶ ῥητίνην ἔδωκαν εἰς τὸν σύμμικτόν σου.
The people of Damascus were thy merchants by reason of the abundance of all thy power; wine out of Chelbon, and wool from Miletus; and they brought wine into thy market.
Δαμασκὸς ἔμποροί σου, ἐκ πλήθους πάσης δυνάμεώς σου· οἶνος ἐκ Χελβὼν, καὶ ἔρια ἐκ Μιλήτου, καὶ οἶνον εἰς τὴν ἀγοράν σου ἔδωκαν.
Out of Asel came wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels among thy trading population.
Ἐξ Ἀσὴλ σίδηρος εἰργασμένος, καὶ τροχιὰς ἐν τῷ συμμίκτῳ σου ἐστί.
The people of Dædan were thy merchants, with choice cattle for chariots.
Δαιδὰν ἔμποροί σου, μετὰ κτηνῶν ἐκλεκτῶν εἰς ἅρματα.
Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, these were thy traders with thee, bringing camels, and lambs, and rams, in which they trade with thee.
Ἡ Ἀραβία καὶ πάντες οἱ ἄρχοντες Κηδὰρ, οὗτοι ἔμποροί σου διὰ χειρός σου, καμήλους καὶ ἀμνοὺς καὶ κριοὺς ἐν οἷς ἐμπορεύονταί σε.
The merchants of Sabba and Ramma, these were thy merchants, with choice spices, and precious stones: and they brought gold to thy market.
Ἔμποροι Σαββὰ, καὶ Ῥαμμὰ, οὗτοι ἔμποροί σου, μετὰ πρώτων ἡδυσμάτων, καὶ λίθων χρηστῶν, καὶ χρυσὸν ἔδωκαν τὴν ἀγοράν σου.
Charra, and Chanaa, these were thy merchants: Assur, and Charman, were thy merchants:
Χαῤῥὰ, καὶ Χαναὰ, οὗτοι ἔμποροί σου·
bringing for merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords, and cypress wood.
Ἀσσοὺρ καὶ Χαρμὰν ἔμποροί σου, φέροντες ἐμπορίαν ὑάκινθον, καὶ θησαυροὺς ἐκλεκτοὺς δεδεμένους σχοίνίοις, καὶ κυπαρίσσινα.
Ships were thy merchants, in abundance, with thy trading population: and thou wast filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea.
Πλοῖα ἔμποροί σου, ἐν τῷ πλήθει, ἐν τῷ συμμίκτῳ σου· καὶ ἐνεπλήσθης καὶ ἐβαρύνθης σφόδρα ἐν καρδίᾳ θαλάσσης.
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind has broken thee in the heart of the sea.
Ἐν ὕδατι πολλῷ ἦγόν σε οἱ κωπηλάται σου, τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ Νότου συνέτριψέ σε ἐν καρδίᾳ θαλάσσης.
Thy forces, and thy gain, and that of thy traders, and thy rowers, and thy pilots, and thy counsellors, and they that traffic with thee, and all thy warriors that are in thee: and all thy company in the midst of thee shall perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of thy fall.
Ἦσαν δυνάμεις σου, καὶ ὁ μισθός σου, καὶ τῶν συμμίκτων σου, καὶ οἱ κωπηλάται σου, καὶ οἱ κυβερνῆταί σου, καὶ οἱ σύμβουλοί σου, καὶ οἱ σύμμικτοί σου ἐκ τῶν συμμίκτων σου, καὶ πάντες οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ πολεμισταί σου οἱ ἐν σοί· καὶ πᾶσα συναγωγή σου ἐν μέσῳ σου πεσοῦνται ἐν καρδίᾳ θαλάσσης, ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς πτώσεώς σου.
At the cry of thy voice thy pilots shall be greatly terrified.
Πρὸς τὴν κραυγὴν τῆς φωνῆς σου οἱ κυβερνῆταί σου φόβῳ φοβηθήσονται.
And all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land.
Καὶ καταβήσονται ἀπὸ τῶν πλοίων πάντες οἱ κωπηλάται, καὶ οἱ ἐπιβάται, καὶ οἱ πρωρεῖς τῆς θαλάσσης ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν στήσονται.
And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.
Καὶ ἀλαλάξουσιν ἐπὶ σὲ τῇ φωνῇ αὐτῶν, καὶ κεκράξονται πικρὸν, καὶ ἐπιθήσουσι γῆν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτῶν, καὶ σποδὸν στρώσονται.
And their sons shall take up a lament for thee, even a lamentation for Sor, saying,
Καὶ λήψονται οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτῶν ἐπὶ σὲ θρῆνον, θρήνημα Σόρ·
How large a reward hast thou gained from the sea? thou hast filled nations out of thine abundance; and out of thy mixed merchandise thou hast enriched all the kings of the earth.
Πόσον τινὰ εὗρες μισθὸν ἀπὸ τῆς θαλάσσης; Ἐνέπλησας ἔθνη ἀπὸ τοῦ πλήθους σου, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ συμμίκτου σου ἐπλούτησας πάντας βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς.
Now art thou broken in the sea, thy traders are in the deep water, and all thy company in the midst of thee: all thy rowers have fallen.
Νῦν συνετρίβης ἐν θαλάσσῃ, ἐν βάθει ὕδατος ὁ σύμμικτός σου, καὶ πᾶσα ἡ συναγωγή σου ἐν μέσῳ σου· ἔπεσον πάντες οἱ κωπηλάται σου.
All the dwellers in the islands have mourned over thee, and their kings have been utterly amazed, and their countenance has wept.
Πάντες οἱ κατοικοῦντες τὰς νήσους ἐστύγνασαν ἐπὶ σέ, καὶ οἱ βασιλεῖς αὐτῶν ἐκστάσει ἐξέστησαν, καὶ ἐδάκρυσε τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν.
Merchants from the nations have hissed at thee; thou art utterly destroyed, and shalt not be any more for ever.
Ἔμποροι ἀπὸ ἐθνῶν ἐσύρισάν σε, ἀπώλεια ἐγένου, καὶ οὐκέτι ἔσῃ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
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