Ezekiel 27:25-35

25 “ ‘The ships of Tarshish serve as carriers for your wares. You are filled with heavy cargo as you sail the sea.

26 Your oarsmen take you out to the high seas. But the east wind will break you to pieces far out at sea.

27 Your wealth, merchandise and wares, your mariners, sailors and shipwrights, your merchants and all your soldiers, and everyone else on board will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your shipwreck.

28 The shorelands will quake when your sailors cry out.

29 All who handle the oars will abandon their ships; the mariners and all the sailors will stand on the shore.

30 They will raise their voice and cry bitterly over you; they will sprinkle dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

31 They will shave their heads because of you and will put on sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and with bitter mourning.

32 As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament concerning you: “Who was ever silenced like Tyre, surrounded by the sea?”

33 When your merchandise went out on the seas, you satisfied many nations; with your great wealth and your wares you enriched the kings of the earth.

34 Now you are shattered by the sea in the depths of the waters; your wares and all your company have gone down with you.

35 All who live in the coastlands are appalled at you; their kings shudder with horror and their faces are distorted with fear.

Ezekiel 27:25-35 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.

Cross References

• 1. S Genesis 10:4; Isa 2:16 "fn"
• 2. Revelation 18:3
• 3. S Genesis 41:6; Psalms 48:7; Jeremiah 18:17
• 4. Proverbs 11:4
• 5. Ezekiel 28:8
• 6. S Jeremiah 49:21; Ezekiel 26:15
• 7. S Joshua 7:6; S 2 Samuel 1:2
• 8. S Jeremiah 6:26
• 9. Revelation 18:18-19
• 10. S Leviticus 13:40; S Job 1:20; S Isaiah 3:17; S Jeremiah 48:37
• 11. S Isaiah 16:9; Revelation 18:15
• 12. S Esther 4:1; Job 3:20; Isaiah 22:12; Jeremiah 6:26; S Lamentations 2:10; S Ezekiel 7:18
• 13. S Ezekiel 19:1; Ezekiel 26:17
• 14. Isaiah 23:1-6; Ezekiel 26:5
• 15. S ver 3
• 16. S ver 12; Ezekiel 28:4-5
• 17. Zechariah 9:4
• 18. S Ezekiel 26:15
• 19. S Leviticus 26:32; S Job 18:20
• 20. S Ezekiel 26:17-18; Ezekiel 32:10