Ezekiel 27:27-36

27 "Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise, Your sailors and your pilots, Your repairers of seams, your dealers in merchandise And all your men of war who are in you, With all your company that is in your midst, Will fall into the heart of the seas On the day of your overthrow.

28 "At the sound of the cry of your pilots The pasture lands will ¹shake.

29 "All who handle the oar, The ²sailors and all the pilots of the sea Will come down from their ships; They will stand on the land,

30 And they will ³make their voice heard over you And will cry bitterly. They will ⁴cast dust on their heads, They will ⁵wallow in ashes.

31 "Also they will make themselves ⁶bald * for you And ⁷gird themselves with sackcloth; And they will ⁸weep for you in bitterness of soul With bitter mourning.

32 "Moreover, in their wailing they will take up a ⁹lamentation for you And lament over you: 'Who is like Tyre, Like her who is silent in the midst of the sea?

33 'When your wares went out from the seas, You satisfied many peoples; With the ¹⁰abundance of your wealth and your merchandise You enriched the kings of earth.

34 'Now that you are ¹¹broken by the seas In the depths of the waters, Your ¹²merchandise and all your company Have fallen in the midst of you.

35 'All the ¹³inhabitants of the coastlands Are appalled at you, And their kings are horribly afraid; They are troubled in countenance.

36 'The merchants among the peoples ¹⁴hiss at you; You have become terrified And you ¹⁵will cease to be forever *.' ""'

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Ezekiel 27:27-36 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 15

1. Ezek 26:10, 15, 18
2. Revelation 18:17-19
3. Isaiah 23:1-6; Ezekiel 26:17
4. 1 Samuel 4:12; 2 Samuel 1:2; Lamentations 2:10; Revelation 18:19
5. Jeremiah 6:26; Jonah 3:6
6. Isaiah 15:2; Ezekiel 29:18
7. Isaiah 22:12; Ezekiel 7:18
8. Isaiah 16:9; Isaiah 22:4
9. Ezekiel 26:17; Ezekiel 27:2; Ezekiel 28:12
10. Ezekiel 27:12, 18; Ezekiel 28:4, 5
11. Ezekiel 26:12; Ezekiel 27:26, 27
12. Zechariah 9:3, 4
13. Isaiah 23:6; Ezekiel 26:16
14. Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 49:17; Jeremiah 50:13; Zephaniah 2:15
15. Psalms 37:10, 36

Footnotes 2

[a]. Lit "The time"
[b]. Lit "terrors"

Ezekiel 27:27-36

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Ezekiel 27:27-36 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 27

Cross References 15

Footnotes 2