Ezekiel 28:8

They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.

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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 will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. They will defile your brightness.

9Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.

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Cross References

Job 17:16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

Job 33:28He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

Psalms 30:9“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

Psalms 88:4I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

Proverbs 28:17A man who is tormented by blood guilt will be a fugitive until death. No one will support him.

Ezekiel 27:26Your rowers 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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