Ezekiel 26:15
in Ezekiel 26This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: ‘Will not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan at the slaughter in your midst?
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
KJV
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?
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This verse in Ezekiel 26
Commentary
10 notes on this verse(Verse 15 and following) Thus says the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the rumble of your downfall, and the groaning of your slain, when they are killed in your midst, shake the islands? And all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and they will take off their robes and cast aside their embroidered garments; they will put on sackcloth and sit on the ground, and they will tremble with horror at you.
This site's exposition
Will not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall
on Ezekiel 26:15-18
Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall pictures every trading partner absorbing the shock. The princes of the sea come down from their thrones to sit upon the ground. Gill reads the princes' mourning as evidence of how deeply Tyre's economy had bound the coastal world.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening5 voices
), as, when a great merchant breaks, all that he deals with are shocked by it, and begin to look about them; perhaps they had effects in his hands, which they are afraid they shall lose. Or, when they see one fail and become bankrupt of a sudden, in debt a great deal more than he is worth, it makes them afraid for themselves, lest they should do so too.
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She is turned - The trading interest will turn to me. Scrape - I will leave thee nothing; thou shalt be scraped, and swept, that not so much as dust shall remain in thee. Like - As bare as was the rock on which thy city is built.
Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus,....
It is probable that, when the city was taken, the generality of the inhabitants were put to the sword. Then did the wounded cry, and they cried in vain, to the pitiless conquerors; they cried quarter, but it would not be given them; the wounded are slain without mercy, or, rather, that is the only mercy that is shown them, that the second blow shall rid them out of their pain.
This prophecy is dated in the eleventh year, which was the year that Jerusalem was taken, and in the first day of the month, but it is not said what month, some think the month in which Jerusalem was taken, which was the fourth month, others the month after; or perhaps it was the first month, and so it was the first day of the year.
3 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The effect of the fall of Tyre. Eze 26:16 Clothe themselves with trembling - Mourners change their bright robes for sad garments. Eze 26:17 Of seafaring men - literally, “from the seas,” i. e., occupied by men who come from the seas. Tyre was an inhabited city rising from out of the sea. Eze 26:20 Compare Isa 14:9. The image used by Isaiah and Jeremiah of Babylon is by Ezekiel applied to Tyre, as if to show that Tyre and Babylon alike represent the world-power. So, in the Book of Revelation, Babylon is the kingdom of Antichrist.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Even mighty Carthage used to send a yearly offering to the temple of Hercules at Tyre: and the mother city gave high priests to her colonies. Hence the consternation at her fall felt in the widely scattered dependencies with which she was so closely connected by the ties of religion, as well as commercial intercourse. shake--metaphorically: "be agitated" (Jer 49:21).
The isles shake at the sound of thy fall - All those which had traded with this city, which was the grand mart, and on which they all depended. Her ruin involved them all, and caused general wailing.
The words behind it
15 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כֹּ֥ה | koh | thus | H3541 → | 577 times |
| אָמַ֛ר | ʾamar | he says | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אֲדֹנָ֥י | ʾadonai | [the] Lord | H136 → | 440 times |
| יְהוִ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3069 → | 306 times |
| לְצ֑וֹר | letzor | to Tyre | H6865 → | 42 times |
| הֲלֹ֣א׀ | halo' | ¿ not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| מִקּ֣וֹל | mikol | from [the] sound of | H6963 → | 506 times |
| מַפַּלְתֵּ֗ךְ | mapaltekh | downfall your | H4658 → | 8 times |
| בֶּאֱנֹ֨ק | beenok | when groan | H602 → | 4 times |
| חָלָ֜ל | chalal | [the] fatally wounded | H2491 → | 94 times |
| בֵּהָ֤רֵֽג | behareg | when is killed | H2026 → | 167 times |
| הֶ֙רֶג֙ | hereg | a slaughter | H2027 → | |
| בְּתוֹכֵ֔ךְ | betokhekh | in [the] midst of you | H8432 → | 418 times |
| יִרְעֲשׁ֖וּ | yirashu | will they quake | H7493 → | 30 times |
| הָאִיִּֽים׃ | haiyim | the islands | H339 → | 36 times |
כֹּ֥הthus
kohH3541 →577 times
אָמַ֛רhe says
ʾamarH559 →5305 times
אֲדֹנָ֥י[the] Lord
ʾadonaiH136 →440 times
יְהוִ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3069 →306 times
לְצ֑וֹרto Tyre
letzorH6865 →42 times
הֲלֹ֣א׀¿ not
halo'H3808 →5168 times
מִקּ֣וֹלfrom [the] sound of
mikolH6963 →506 times
מַפַּלְתֵּ֗ךְdownfall your
mapaltekhH4658 →8 times
בֶּאֱנֹ֨קwhen groan
beenokH602 →4 times
חָלָ֜ל[the] fatally wounded
chalalH2491 →94 times
בֵּהָ֤רֵֽגwhen is killed
beharegH2026 →167 times
הֶ֙רֶג֙a slaughter
heregH2027 →
בְּתוֹכֵ֔ךְin [the] midst of you
betokhekhH8432 →418 times
יִרְעֲשׁ֖וּwill they quake
yirashuH7493 →30 times
הָאִיִּֽים׃the islands
haiyimH339 →36 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezekiel 27:35All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 32:10
I will cause many peoples to be appalled over you, and their kings will shudder in horror because of you when I brandish My sword before them. On the day of your downfall each…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 26:15–18
This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: ‘Will not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan at the slaughter in your midst?
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 32:10
Through
Ezekiel 31:16I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and…
it leads to
- Isaiah 14:15
But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.
- Isaiah 14:8
Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”
- Isaiah 14:15
Through
Jeremiah 49:21At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 50:46
At the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.
- Jeremiah 50:46
Through
Ezekiel 26:18Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.”’
it leads to
- Ezekiel 27:35
All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 23:5–7
When the report reaches Egypt, they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.
- Ezekiel 27:35
Through
Ezekiel 27:28The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 26:10
His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.
- Ezekiel 26:10
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.