Ezekiel 26:18

18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure.

Ezekiel 26:18 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 26:18

Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall
The isles near unto it, the isles of the Mediterranean sea; the inhabitants of them, the merchants who from thence traded with Tyre, the seafaring men of those places; partly on account of losses sustained hereby, and partly through fear of the same calamities coming upon themselves; see ( Revelation 18:11 Revelation 18:15 Revelation 18:17 ) : yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure; as at the cry of the wounded, and the number of the slain; so on account of those that should be carried away captive by the Babylonians; as well as at the departure of those that should be obliged to fly to other colonies, ( Isaiah 23:6 ) , so that, upon one account or another, it shall be entirely stripped of its inhabitants.

Ezekiel 26:18 In-Context

16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

17 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How are you destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!

18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure.

19 For thus says the Lord GOD: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;

20 then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the eretz, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living: