Ezekiel 27:26

Your rowers have brought you into many waters. The south wind has worn you down in the heart of the sea.

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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

25The ships of the sea were important to your business dealings. For you were replenished and exceedingly glorified in the heart of the sea.

27Your riches, and your treasures, and your versatile equipment, your sailors and your navigators, who handle your goods and who were first among your people, likewise your men of war, who were among you, and your entire multitude that is in your midst: they will fall in the heart of the sea on the day of your ruin.

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Cross References

Psalms 48:7Those who trust in their own strength and who glory in the multitude of their riches,

Psalms 93:3How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners glory?

Jeremiah 18:17Like a burning wind, I will disperse them in the sight the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their perdition.”

Ezekiel 27:34Now you have been worn away by the sea, your opulence is in the depths of the waters, and your entire multitude that was in your midst has fallen.

Acts 27:41And when we happened upon a place open to two seas, they ran the ship aground. And indeed, the bow, being immobilized, remained fixed, but truly the stern was broken by the violence of the sea.

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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