Ezekiel 26:15-21

15 This is what the Lord God says to Tyre: "Won't the coasts and islands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan and slaughter occurs within you?

16 All the princes of the sea will descend from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, tremble continually, and be appalled^[a] at you.

17 Then they will lament^[b] for you and say of you: How you have perished, city of renown, you who were populated from the seas!^[c] She who was powerful on the sea, she and all of her inhabitants inflicted their terror.^[d]

18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall;^[e] the islands in the sea are alarmed by your demise."

19 For this is what the Lord God says: "When I make you a ruined city like [other] deserted cities, when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

20 then I will bring you down [to be] with those who descend to the Pit,^[f] to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the underworld^[g] like^[h] the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or display [your] splendor^[i] in the land of the living.

21 I will make you an object of horror, and you will no longer exist.^[j] You will be sought but will never be found again." [This is] the declaration of the Lord God .

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.

Footnotes

• [a] Ezk 27:35
• [b] Ezk 27:2,32; 28:12
• [c] Some LXX mss read How you were destroyed from the seas, city of renown!
• [d] Lit and all her inhabitants who put their terror on all her inhabitants; Hb obscure
• [e] Ezk 27:27
• [f] Ezk 28:8; Isa 14:15
• [g] Lit the lower parts of the earth
• [h] Some Hb mss, LXX; other Hb mss, Syr read in
• [i] LXX reads or appear
• [j] Ezk 27:36; 28:19