Ezekiel 28:8

They bring you down to destruction, || You die by the deaths of the wounded, in the heart of the seas.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

In Context

7Therefore, behold, I am bringing in strangers against you, || The terrible of the nations, || And they have drawn out their swords || Against the beauty of your wisdom, || And they have pierced your brightness.

9Do you really say, I [am] God, || Before him who is slaying you? And you [are] man, and not God, || In the hand of him who is piercing you.

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Cross References

Job 17:16You go down [to] the parts of Sheol, || If we may rest together on the dust.”

Job 33:28He has ransomed my soul || From going over into the pit, || And my life looks on the light.

Psalms 30:9“What gain [is] in my blood? In my going down to corruption? Does dust thank You? Does it declare Your truth?

Psalms 88:4I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, || I have been as a man without strength.

Proverbs 28:17A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, || Flees to the pit, [and] none takes hold on him [to help].

Ezekiel 27:26Those rowing you have brought you into great waters, || The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 28:2-11

Fall of the Prince of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 1 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God ; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: 4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee… Read the whole commentary →

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