Ezekiel 27:26 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 27:26

Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.

KJV

Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters - Tyre is still considered under the allegory of a ship; and all the vessels of different nations trading with her are represented as towing her into deep waters - bringing her into great affluence. But while in this state, a stormy east wind, or a destructive wind, meaning the Chaldeans, arises, and dashes her to pieces! See the ode from Horace, already quoted on Eze 27:4 (note).

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

She is as a great ship richly laden, that is split or sunk by the indiscretion of her steersmen: Thy rowers have themselves brought thee into great and dangerous waters; the governors of the city, and those that had the management of their public affairs, by some mismanagement or other involved them in that war with the Chaldeans which was the ruin of their state.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

In contrast to her previous greatness, her downfall is here, by a sudden transition, depicted under the image of a vessel foundering at sea. east wind--blowing from Lebanon, the most violent wind in the Mediterranean (Ps 48:7). A Levanter, as it is called. The "sea" is the war with him which the "rowers," or rulers of the state vessel, had "brought" it into, to its ruin.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּמַ֤יִם	be.Ma.yim	on waters	H4325 →
רַבִּים֙	ra.Bim	many	H7227 →
הֱבִיא֔וּךְ	he.vi.'Ukh	they brought you	H935 →
הַשָּׁטִ֖ים	ha.sha.Tim	the rowers	H7751 →
אֹתָ֑ךְ	'o.Takh	<obj.> you	H853 →
ר֚וּחַ	Ru.ach	[the] wind of	H7307 →
הַקָּדִ֔ים	ha.ka.Dim	the east	H6921 →
שְׁבָרֵ֖ךְ	she.va.Rekh	it broke you	H7665 →
בְּלֵ֥ב	be.Lev	in [the] heart of	H3820 →
יַמִּֽים׃	ya.Mim	[the] seas	H3220 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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.
leads to
- Isaiah 8:7–8
  the 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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 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 51:13
  You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
- 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.
Through
Acts 27:14
But it was not long before a cyclone called the Northeaster swept down across the island.
leads to
- Mark 4:37
  Soon a violent windstorm came up, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was being swamped.
Through
Jeremiah 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.”
leads to
- Jeremiah 13:24
  “I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
- Jeremiah 2:27
  say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble…
Through
Psalms 48:7
With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
leads to
- Jeremiah 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.”

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Ezekiel

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About Ezekiel