Ezekiel 27:26

Your rowers have brought you into great waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.

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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

25“‘“The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise. You were replenished and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.

27Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your company which is among you, will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.

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Cross References

Psalms 48:7With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.

Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

Ezekiel 27:34In the time that you were broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company fell within you.

Acts 27:41But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.

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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