Ezekiel 26:17
Then shall they take up over thee a dirge, And say to thee,- How hast thou perished, And ceased from the seas,- The city renowned which was strong in the sea She and they who dwelt in her, Who imparted their terror To all who dwelt in her.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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2 Samuel 1:19The beauty of Israel! on thy high plumes—slain! How have fallen—the mighty!
Isaiah 14:12How hast thou fallen from heaven, O Shining One—Son of the Dawn! Hewn down to the earth, O crusher of nations!
Isaiah 23:8Who hath purposed this, against Tyre, The bestower of crowns,—Whose merchants are princes, Her traders the honourable of the earth?
Jeremiah 7:29Cut thou off thy crown of hair [O Jerusalem], and cast it away, And lift thou up on the bare heights, a dirge,—For Yahweh hath rejected and cast out the generation with which he was wroth.
Lamentations 1:1How is seated alone, the city that abounded with people, hath become as a widow,—She who abounded among the nations was a princess among provinces, hath come under tribute.
Ezekiel 19:14And there hath gone forth a fire out of her staves of rods. Her fruit, hath it devoured, And there is in her no staff of power. As a sceptre to bear rule. A dirge, it is, and hath been made a dirge.
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 →