Ezekiel 26:15-21

15 Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre, "Shall not the ¹coastlands ²shake at the sound of your fall when the wounded groan, when the slaughter occurs in your midst?

16 "Then all the princes of the sea will ³go down from their thrones, remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will ⁴clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, ⁵tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

17 "They will take up a ⁶lamentation over you and say to you, '⁷How you have perished, O inhabited one, From the seas, O renowned city, Which was ⁸mighty on the sea, She and her inhabitants, Who imposed her terror On all her inhabitants!

18 'Now the ⁹coastlands will tremble On the day of your fall; Yes, the coastlands which are by the sea Will be terrified at your ¹⁰passing.' "

19 For thus says the Lord GOD, "When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I ¹¹bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

20 then I will bring you down with those who ¹²go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the ¹³lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set ¹⁴glory in the land of the living.

21 "I will bring ¹⁵terrors on you and you will be no more; though you will be sought, ¹⁶you will never * be found again," declares the Lord GOD.

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Ezekiel 26:15-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 26

This chapter contains a prophecy of the destruction of Tyre. The time of the prophecy, Eze 26:1, the cause of the destruction of it, rejoicing at the ruin of Jerusalem, Eze 26:2, the instruments of it, many nations, particularly the king of Babylon, Eze 26:3-7, the manner in which it shall be done, Eze 26:8-14, the lamentation of other isles, and the princes of them, on account of it, Eze 26:15-18, the utter destruction of it, so as never to be found any more, Eze 26:19-21.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 16

1. Ezekiel 26:18; Ezekiel 27:35
2. Jeremiah 49:21; Ezekiel 31:16
3. Jonah 3:6
4. Job 8:22; Psalms 35:26; Ezekiel 7:27; 1 Peter 5:5
5. Ezekiel 32:10; Hosea 11:10
6. Ezekiel 19:1, 14; Ezekiel 27:2, 32; Ezekiel 32:2, 16
7. Isaiah 14:12; Jeremiah 48:39; Jeremiah 50:23
8. Ezek 27:3, 10, 11; Ezekiel 28:2
9. Isaiah 41:5; Ezekiel 26:15; Ezekiel 27:35
10. Is 23:5-7, 10, 11
11. Isaiah 8:7, 8; Ezekiel 26:3
12. Isaiah 14:9, 10; Ezekiel 32:30
13. Psalms 88:6; Amos 9:2; Jonah 2:2, 6
14. Jeremiah 33:9; Zechariah 2:8
15. Ezekiel 26:15, 16; Ezekiel 27:36
16. Revelation 18:21

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "tremblings"
[b]. Lit "put"
[c]. Lit "their"
[d]. Or "return"
[e]. Lit "give you terrors"