Ezekiel 26:18

Now the sea-lands will be shaking in the day of your fall; and all the ships on the sea will be overcome with fear at your going.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.

In Context

17And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say to you, What destruction has come on you, how are you cut off from the sea, the noted town, which was strong in the sea, she and her people, causing the fear of them to come on all the dry land!

19For this is what the Lord has said: I will make you a waste town, like the towns which are unpeopled; when I make the deep come upon you, covering you with great waters.

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Cross References

Isaiah 23:5When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre.

Isaiah 41:5The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near.

Ezekiel 27:28At the sound of the cry of your ships' guides, the boards of the ship will be shaking.

Ezekiel 31:15This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 26:16-21

The Burden of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 15 Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee. 17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee,… Read the whole commentary →

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