Ezekiel 27:25

Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

In Context

24These were your traders in beautiful robes, in rolls of blue and needlework, and in chests of coloured cloth, corded with cords and made of cedar-wood, in them they did trade with you.

26Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.

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Cross References

Psalms 48:7\48:6\Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth.

Isaiah 23:14Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 27:2-26

The Prosperity of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 1 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; 3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God ; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. 4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. 5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from… Read the whole commentary →

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