Ezekiel 27:26
24 In your marketplace they traded with you fine garments of blue, embroidered work, and multicolored rugs with cords tightly twisted and knotted.
25 The ships of Tarshish carried your merchandise. And you were filled with heavy cargo in the heart of the sea.
Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.
27 Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.
28 The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.
- KJV
- Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
- WEB
- Your rowers have brought you into great waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
- ASV
- Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
- DARBY
- Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters; the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
- BLB
- Into many waters they have brought you, those rowing for you; a wind from the east has broken you in the midst of the seas.
- ÅB
- På store vann førte dine rorskarer deg ut - østenvinden knuser deg midt i havet.
- OTB
- Dine roere har brakt deg inn i de store vannene;
østavinden har knust deg
i stykker i hjertet av havene. - B1930
- På store vann førte dine rorskarer dig ut - østenvinden knuser dig midt i havet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 48:7
With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
Read in contextActs 27:14
But it was not long before a cyclone called the Northeaster swept down across the island.
Read in contextEzekiel 26:19
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,
Read in contextJeremiah 18:17
I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
Read in contextRevelation 17:15
Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
Read in contextEzekiel 27:34
Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.
Read in contextIsaiah 33:23
Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.
Read in contextPsalms 93:3–4
The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
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