Ezekiel 26:16-18

16 Then all the princes of the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled at you.

17 Then they will take up a lament concerning you and say to you: “ ‘How you are destroyed, city of renown, peopled by men of the sea! You were a power on the seas, you and your citizens; you put your terror on all who lived there.

18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall; the islands in the sea are terrified at your collapse.’

Ezekiel 26:16-18 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.

Cross References

• 1. S Exodus 26:36
• 2. S Job 8:22
• 3. S Job 2:8,13
• 4. Hosea 11:10
• 5. S Leviticus 26:32; Ezekiel 32:10
• 6. S Ezekiel 19:1; Ezekiel 27:32
• 7. Isaiah 14:12
• 8. S Psalms 46:6; S Jeremiah 49:21
• 9. Isaiah 23:5; S Isaiah 41:5; Ezekiel 27:35