Ezekiel 27:26

Into great waters brought thee those that were thy rowers: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.

Leeser Tanakh

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 Tharshish were thy caravans in thy commerce: and thou wast made full, and becamest very rich in the heart of the seas.

27Thy wealth, and thy warehouses, thy commerce, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy caulkers, and the conductors of thy commerce, and all thy men of war that were in thee, and in all thy assemblage which was in the midst of thee, fell into the heart of the seas on the day of thy downfall.

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Cross References

Psalms 48:7(48:8) With the east wind thou breakest the ships of Tharshish.

Psalms 93:3The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voice; the rivers lift up their waves.

Jeremiah 18:17Like an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy; with the back, and not the face, will I regard them on the day of their calamity.

Ezekiel 27:34[Now] at the time thou art broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy commerce and all thy assemblage fell in the midst of thee.

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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