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Ezekiel 26:19

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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,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee;

KJV

For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;

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This verse in Ezekiel 26

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

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).

This site's exposition

raise up the deep against you

on Ezekiel 26:19-21

The last movement pictures the city sent down into the pit among the people of old time. The closing sentence is absolute, I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more. Keil reads the finality as prophetic certainty stated in its full and strongest form.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 19 onwards) Because this is what the Lord (the Vulgate adds God) says: When I make you a desolate city like cities that are uninhabited, and I bring an abyss upon you, and many waters cover you, and I bring you down with those who descend into the pit (or to those who descend into the grave) to the everlasting people, and I place you in the farthest land (or in the depths of the earth) like the ancient wildernesses, with those who are brought down into the pit (or descend into the grave), so that you will not be inhabited, and when I give glory in the land of the living (or so that you will not rise again in the land of the living), I will bring you to nothing (or I will give you destruction) and you will not be, and you will not be sought after (the Vulgate adds anymore) forever, says the Lord God.

The Puritans and the Awakening4 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.
For thus saith the Lord God,....

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.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Or, she shall be in the condition of those who have been long buried, of the people of old time, who are old inhabitants of the silent grace, who are quite rotted away under ground and quite forgotten above ground; such shall Tyre be, free among the dead, set in the lower parts of the earth, humbled, mortified, reduced.

The words behind it

20 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.

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • כֹ֤הthus

    khohH3541 →577 times

  • אָמַר֙he says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • אֲדֹנָ֣י[the] Lord

    ʾadonaiH136 →440 times

  • יְהוִ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3069 →306 times

  • בְּתִתִּ֤יwhen make I

    betitiH5414 →2011 times

  • אֹתָךְ֙<obj.> you

    ʾotokhH853 →10935 times

  • עִ֣ירa city

    ʾirH5892 →1090 times

  • נֶחֱרֶ֔בֶתdesolate

    necherevetH2717 →40 times

  • כֶּעָרִ֖יםlike <the> cities

    kearimH5892 →1090 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • נוֹשָׁ֑בוּthey are inhabited

    noshavuH3427 →1079 times

  • בְּהַעֲל֤וֹתwhen bring up

    behaalotH5927 →890 times

  • עָלַ֙יִךְ֙over you

    ʾalayikhH5921 →5755 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • תְּה֔וֹם[the] deep

    tehomH8415 →36 times

  • וְכִסּ֖וּךְand they will cover you

    vekhisukhH3680 →152 times

  • הַמַּ֥יִםthe waters

    hamayimH4325 →581 times

  • הָרַבִּֽים׃<the> many

    harabimH7227 →454 times

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

Related verses

8 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 8:7–8the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.4 worksEzekiel 26:3therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.4 worksEzekiel 26:5She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,3 worksEzekiel 27:26Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.3 worksGenesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.3 worksDaniel 11:40At the time of the end, the king of the South will engage him in battle, but the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots, horsemen, and many ships, invading many countries and sweeping through them like a flood.2 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
Daniel 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.2 worksRevelation 17:15Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.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

    Daniel 9:26

    Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 53:8

      By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.

    • Nahum 1:8

      But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.

    • Mark 13:2

      “Do you see all these great buildings?” Jesus replied. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”

    • Luke 24:26

      Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”

  • Through

    Revelation 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.

    it leads to

    • Revelation 17:1

      Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.

    • Jeremiah 51:55

      For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.

    • Jeremiah 51:13

      You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 26:3

    therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 51:42

      The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.

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.
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This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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