Ezekiel 28:8

To the pit, shall they take thee down,- And thou shalt die the deaths of one thrust through, In the heart of the seas.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 me! bringing upon thee aliens, The terrible ones of the nations,- And they shall unsheathe their swords over the beauty of thy wisdom, And profane thy splendour:

9Wilt thou really say, God, am I, before him who is slaying thee; When, thou, art a man and not a God, in the hand of them who are piercing thee?

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Cross References

Job 17:16With me to hades, would they go down, If, wholly—into the dust, is the descent!

Job 33:28He hath ransomed my soul from passing away into the pit,—and, my life, in the light, shall have vision.

Psalms 30:9What profit in my blood? in my going down into the pit? Can dust praise thee? Can it declare thy faithfulness?

Psalms 88:4I am counted with them who descend into the pit, I have become as a man that is without help;

Proverbs 28:17A man oppressed with a person’s blood, unto a pit, shall flee, let them not hold him back.

Ezekiel 27:26Into mighty waters, have they brought thee, the rowers—even thee,— the east wind, hath broken thee 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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