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Ezekiel 26:18

in Ezekiel 26

Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.”’

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at thy departure.

KJV

Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.

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This verse in Ezekiel 26

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(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.

This site's exposition

the islands in the sea are dismayed

Coastlands and islands translate one Hebrew word, iyyim, used for the lands along the Mediterranean shore. Tyre's colonies and trading posts stood along those shores. Their trade hung on hers.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

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.
Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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).

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

GROTIUS explains "departure," that is, "in the day when hostages shall be carried away from thee to Babylon." The parallelism to "thy fall" makes me think "departure" must mean "thy end" in general, but with an included allusion to the "departure" of most of her people to her colonies at the fall of the city.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • עַתָּה֙now

    ʾatahH6258 →433 times

  • יֶחְרְד֣וּthey will tremble

    yechreduH2729 →39 times

  • הָֽאִיִּ֔ןthe islands

    haiyinH339 →36 times

  • י֖וֹם[the] day of

    yomH3117 →2304 times

  • מַפַּלְתֵּ֑ךְdownfall your

    mapaltekhH4658 →8 times

  • וְנִבְהֲל֛וּand they will be terrified

    venivhaluH926 →

  • הָאִיִּ֥יםthe islands

    haiyimH339 →36 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • בַּיָּ֖ם[are] in the sea

    baiyamH3220 →396 times

  • מִצֵּאתֵֽךְ׃ ס<from> because went out you

    mitzetekhH3318 →1067 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Isaiah 23:5–7When the report reaches Egypt, they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.3 worksEzekiel 26:15This 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?3 worksJeremiah 50:46At the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.3 worksIsaiah 41:5The islands see and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward.2 worksIsaiah 23:10–12Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer a harbor.2 worksEzekiel 27:28–30The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Ezekiel 27:35All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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 26:15

    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?

    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.

    • Jeremiah 49:21

      At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.

    • Ezekiel 31:16

      I 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…

  • Through

    Isaiah 41:5

    The islands see and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 26:15–16

      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?

    • Psalms 66:3

      Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.

    • Psalms 65:8

      Those who live far away fear Your wonders; You make the dawn and sunset shout for joy.

    • Joshua 5:1

      Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until…

    • Psalms 67:7

      God blesses us, that all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read Ezekiel 26 →

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Ezekiel; 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.

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