Ezekiel 27:1

Ezekiel 27:1 says, The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,                

Verse two adds, Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; When God’s word came to Ezekiel again, having pronounced His judgment of the four nations in the preceding chapter, He now had a message for the people of Tyrus, or Tyre as it is usually referred to today, but I will use Tyrus.  Matthew Henry points out that the other four nations were decreasing in power already, but Tyrus was still a major hub of commerce.  Three chapters are spent dealing with the lamentations pronounced on the city of Tyrus. Some cities or nations may be very important in world commerce today, but if they deny God and follow other gods, they will one day fall.  

Verse three continues, And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.  God said that the people of Tyrus thought that they were located perfectly to be a merchant to many other countries and that this made them a great power, but they were going to find out that they were not so powerful that they could ignore God.  No matter how important or powerful a country may think itself to be today, if it considers itself to be more powerful than God and refuses to acknowledge Him, it will one day fall.  

Verse four states, Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.  God said that the borders of Tyrus were in the sea, or that she was an important seaport in other words.  Because Tyrus saw itself as important, the builders had built her in beauty.  Not only was Tyrus important because of its location, she was also made to look beautiful to be even more appealing.  Some places in the world today go out of their way to make themselves beautiful in the eyes of the world even as they deny God and His power, but they will one day fall.  

Verse five adds, They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.  The boards that they had used to build ships, the fir trees and cedar trees would no longer be imported to build them, because Tyrus would no longer exist.  They were dependent on other nations for some of their building materials, and no nation can stand alone today.  Whatever we have brought into our lives in this lifetime that is outside the will of God will one day be completely destroyed, and in this lifetime, we can never think that we don’t need other nations to help us.  

Verse six continues, Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.  This is a continuation of listing the things that would no longer be found in Tyrus.  As stated, nothing that we have put our faith in in world outside of God is ever going to last.