John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 27:2

"And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;" — Ezekiel 27:2 (ASV)

Now, you son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus .
] Compose an elegy, and sing it; make a mournful noise, and deliver out a funeral ditty; such as the "praeficae", or mournful women, made at funerals, in which they said all they could in praise of the dead, and made very doleful lamentations for them: this the prophet was to do in a prophetic manner, for the confirmation of what was prophesied of by him; and it may teach us, that even wicked men are to be pitied, when in distress and calamity.