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Ezekiel 27:26-36

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26 "Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. 1The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.
27 Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and 2your pilots, 3your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your crew that is in your midst, sink into the heart of the seas 4on the day of your fall.
28 At the sound of the cry of your pilots 5the countryside shakes,
29 and down from their ships 6come all who handle the oar. The mariners and all the pilots of the sea stand on the land
30 7and shout aloud over you and cry out bitterly. 8They cast dust on their heads 9and wallow in ashes;
31 they 10make themselves bald for you and put sackcloth on their waist, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.
32 In their wailing they 11raise a lamentation for you and lament over you: 12'Who is like Tyre, like one destroyed in the midst of the sea?
33 When your wares came from the seas, 13you satisfied many peoples; with your abundant wealth and merchandise 14you enriched the kings of the earth.
34 Now 15you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your crew in your midst have sunk with you.
35 16All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled at you, and 17the hair of their kings bristles with horror; their faces are convulsed.
36 18The merchants among the peoples 19hiss at you; 20you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever.'"
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Ezekiel 27:26-36 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 27

This chapter contains a lamentation on Tyre; setting forth her former grandeur, riches, and commerce; her ruin and destruction; and the concern of others on that account. The prophet is bid to take up his lamentation concerning it, Eze 27:1,2, observing her situation and magnificence, of which she boasted, Eze 27:3,4, describing the excellency of her shipping and naval stores, Eze 27:5-7, declaring who were her mariners, pilots, and caulkers, Eze 27:8,9, her military men, Eze 27:10,11 her several merchants, and the things they traded in with her in her fairs and markets, Eze 27:12-25, then follows an account of her destruction, Eze 27:26,27, the lamentation of pilots and mariners because of it, Eze 27:28-32, and of the kings and inhabitants of the isles, and merchants of the people, Eze 27:33-36.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 20

  • 1. See Jeremiah 18:17
  • 2. ver. 8
  • 3. ver. 9
  • 4. [Ezekiel 26:18; Ezekiel 32:10]
  • 5. [Ezekiel 45:2; Ezekiel 48:15, 17]
  • 6. [Revelation 18:17, 18]
  • 7. [See ver. 29 above]
  • 8. Lamentations 2:10; Revelation 18:19
  • 9. See Jeremiah 6:26
  • 10. See Isaiah 3:24
  • 11. See Ezekiel 19:1
  • 12. [Revelation 18:18]
  • 13. [Revelation 18:15, 19]
  • 14. [Revelation 18:15, 19]
  • 15. [Ezekiel 26:19]
  • 16. Ezekiel 26:15, 16
  • 17. [Ezekiel 32:10]
  • 18. Revelation 18:11
  • 19. See Jeremiah 18:16
  • 20. Ezekiel 26:21; Ezekiel 28:19
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