Ezekiel 27:28

At the sound of the painful cry of thy pilots quake [thy] rural districts.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

In Context

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.

29And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, come down from their ships, they stand upon the land;

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Cross References

Exodus 15:14Nations hear it and tremble: sorrow seizeth the inhabitants of Palestine.

Ezekiel 26:15Thus hath said the Lord Eternal to Tyre, Truly at the noise of thy fall, when the deadly wounded whine, when the slaughter taketh place in the midst of thee, shall the islands quake.

Ezekiel 31:16Through the noise of its downfall I caused nations to quake, when I cast it down into the tomb with the [others] that descend into the pit: and in the land of the nether world comforted themselves all the trees of 'Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that were nourished by water.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 27:27-36

The Fall of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. 27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. 28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. 29 And all that handle the… Read the whole commentary →

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