Ezekiel 26:17

Then they will sing a sad song about the city, and they will sing this: “The famous city [APO], in which many men who sailed on the seas lived, is now destroyed! The people of that city had great power because they had many ships that sailed on the seas; they caused all the people who lived near them to be terrified.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

In Context

16Then all the kings in the cities along the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and their embroidered clothes. They will be terrified, and they will sit on the ground, trembling. They will be appalled because of what has happened to the city of Tyre.

18Now on the day when that city is destroyed, it is as though the people in the areas along the coast tremble and the the people on the islands in the sea are terrified because of that city being ruined.”’

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Cross References

2 Samuel 1:19“You Israeli people, your glorious [MTY] leaders have been killed on the mountains! It is very sad that those mighty men have died!

Isaiah 14:12You have disappeared from the earth like [MET] a star which has fallen from the sky; you were very well-known like [MET] the morning star which is seen by everyone; you destroyed many nations, but now you have been destroyed.

Isaiah 23:8People from Tyre appointed kings over other places; their traders were wealthy; they were as powerful and wealthy as [MET] kings. So, who [RHQ] caused the people of Tyre to experience this disaster?

Jeremiah 7:29So, tell them to cut off their hair to show that they are mourning; tell them to go up into the hills and sing a sad funeral song, because I have completely rejected [DOU] this generation of people who have made me angry.”

Lamentations 1:1Jerusalem was once full of people, but now it is deserted. Once it was honored by people all over the world, but now it is grieving/abandoned like [SIM] a widow. Once it was honored like [MET] a princess is honored among the nations, but now we who live here have become slaves.

Ezekiel 19:14A fire started to burn its stem, and then started to burn the branches and burned all the grapes. Now not even one strong branch remains; they will never become scepters for a king.’ That funeral song must be sung very sadly.”

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 26:16-21

The Burden of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 15 Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee. 17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee,… Read the whole commentary →

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