Ezekiel 26:14-21

14 I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for I the LORD have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.
15 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Tyre: Will not the coastlands tremble at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan and the slaughter takes place in you?
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.’
19 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths over you and its vast waters cover you,
20 then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place[a] in the land of the living.
21 I will bring you to a horrible end and you will be no more. You will be sought, but you will never again be found, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

Ezekiel 26:14-21 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.

Cross References 19

  • 1. S Job 12:14; Malachi 1:4
  • 2. Isaiah 41:5; Ezekiel 27:35
  • 3. S Jeremiah 49:21
  • 4. S Job 24:12
  • 5. S Exodus 26:36
  • 6. S Job 8:22
  • 7. S Job 2:8,13
  • 8. Hosea 11:10
  • 9. S Leviticus 26:32; Ezekiel 32:10
  • 10. S Ezekiel 19:1; Ezekiel 27:32
  • 11. Isaiah 14:12
  • 12. S Psalms 46:6; S Jeremiah 49:21
  • 13. Isaiah 23:5; S Isaiah 41:5; Ezekiel 27:35
  • 14. S Genesis 7:11
  • 15. S ver 3; Isaiah 8:7-8
  • 16. Numbers 16:30; Psalms 28:1; Psalms 88:6; Ezekiel 31:14; Ezekiel 32:18; Amos 9:2; John 2:2,6
  • 17. S Job 28:13; S Isaiah 14:9-10; Ezekiel 32:24,30
  • 18. S Jeremiah 51:64; Daniel 11:19
  • 19. Jeremiah 20:4; Ezekiel 27:36; Ezekiel 28:19; Revelation 18:21

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Septuagint; Hebrew "return, and I will give glory"
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