Ezekiel 28:8

To destruction they bring thee down, Thou diest by the deaths of the wounded, in the heart of the seas.

Young's Literal Translation

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, lo, I am bringing in against thee strangers, The terrible of the nations, And they have drawn out their swords Against the beauty of thy wisdom, And they have pierced thy brightness.

9Dost thou really say, 'I [am] God,' Before him who is slaying thee? And thou [art] man, and not God, In the hand of him who is piercing thee.

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Cross References

Job 17:16[To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

Job 33:28He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'

Psalms 30:9'What gain [is] in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?

Psalms 88:4I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, I have been as a man without strength.

Proverbs 28:17A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.

Ezekiel 27:26Into great waters have they brought thee, Those rowing 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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