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Ecclesiastes Chapter 27

1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 27:2 Now, thou

4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have

5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they

6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of

7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou

8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise

9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy

10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy

11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round

12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind

13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded

14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses

15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the

16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares

17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they

18 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy

19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs:

20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.

21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in

22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they

23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and

24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue

25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou

26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind

27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and

28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of

32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee,

34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths

35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee,

36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be