Ezekiel 26:14

And I will make of thee the glaring face of a cliff. A place for the spreading of nets, shalt thou become, Thou shalt not be but any more, For I. Yahweh have spoken it, Declareth My Lord Yahweh.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

In Context

13And I will cause to cease the hum of thy songs; And the sound of thy lyres, shall not be heard any more.

15Thus saith My Lord. Yahweh, to Tyre: Shall it not be that. At the sound of thy fall. With the groan of thy pierced one. With the slaughter made in thy midst, The Coastlands shall tremble?

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:16and all the spoil thereof, shalt thou gather together into the midst of the broadway thereof, and shalt consume with fire the city and all the spoil thereof, every whit, unto Yahweh thy God,—and it shall be a heap unto times age-abiding, it shall be built no more.

Job 40:8Wilt thou even frustrate my justice? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest appear right?

Ezekiel 5:13So shall mine anger have an end, And I will cause mine indignation, to find rest, upon them, and will console myself,- And they shall know that, I, Yahweh, have spoken in my jealousy, when mine indignation hath come to an end, upon them.

Ezekiel 5:17So will I send upon you famine and mischievous beast and they shall bereave thee,—and pestilence and blood, shall pass through thee,—and a sword, will I bring in upon thee, I Yahweh, have spoken.

Ezekiel 21:32For the fire, shalt thou serve as fuel, Thy blood shall be in the midst of the land,- Thou shalt not be remembered, For I, Yahweh, have spoken.

Ezekiel 26:4And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre. And break down her towers, And I will scrape clean her dust from off her, —And make of her the glaring face of a cliff:

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 26:2-15

The Burden of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. 4 And… Read the whole commentary →

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