Ezekiel 27:26

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

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.

In Context

25Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas.

27Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.

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Cross References

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

Psalms 93:3The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.

Jeremiah 18:17I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.

Ezekiel 27:34Now that you are broken by the seas in the deep waters, your goods and all your people will go down with you.

Acts 27:41And coming to a point between two seas, they got the ship to land; and the front part was fixed in the sand and not able to be moved, but the back part was broken by the force of the waves.

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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