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Ezekiel 27:26

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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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This verse in Ezekiel 27

Commentary

10 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 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).

This site's exposition

the east wind will shatter you

on Ezekiel 27:26-27

The turn comes without warning: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. Everything named across the chapter's long inventory falls together into the midst of the seas. Fairbairn reads the abruptness as intentional, the sudden collapse of a vessel the wind has broken.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 26) Your rowers have brought you into many waters. Above the rowers, we read about the Tyrians of the city of Sidon, and the Aradians, of whom the former are interpreted as hunters and the latter as passers-by. Indeed, they hunt the souls of those whom, amidst the waves of this world, they lead according to their own judgment and do not raise up to lofty heights, but plunge them into the depths. They do not imitate those who, sailing until the morning watch, broke the raging waves of the sea and deserved to receive the Lord and Savior.

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

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.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. 25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. The prophet is ordered to take up a lamentation for Tyrus,

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

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.
3 more voices on this verse

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

THIS was spoken by the Prophet concerning Tyre, that great mercantile city where all the commerce of the East found its outlet towards the West. Tyre, when the Chaldeans invaded Palestine, had greatly rejoiced at the fall of Jerusalem. She said, "Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: I shall be replenished now she is laid waste." It was a cruel and selfish exultation.
THIS was spoken by the Prophet concerning Tyre, that great mercantile city where all the commerce of the East found its outlet towards the West. Tyre, when the Chaldeans invaded Palestine, had greatly rejoiced at the fall of Jerusalem. She said, "Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: I shall be replenished now she is laid waste." It was a cruel and selfish exultation. After a while the city in the sea came to feel the weight of the great oppressor's arm, for thus said the Lord, "I will bring upon Tyrus, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north. He shall set engines of war against your walls and with his axes he shall break down your towers." For 13 years the city endured a siege under Nebuchadnezzar and it was concerning this calamity that the Prophet said, "Your rowers have brought you into great waters" The merchant princes of Tyre had so managed the affairs of the State that they brought the Tyrians into desperate straits. They had incited them to stand out against the great king and they discovered, in due time, that they were striving against a power too strong for them. Their policy had been a mistake. Comparing Tyre to one of its own galleys propelled with oars, the Prophet declares, "Your rowers have brought you into great waters." All the glories and the woes of Tyre are now over. "What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?" That page of history has long ago been turned over to give place to the rise and fall of other cities and empires, but the prophetic expression is still full of power. To many persons in our own day we may well cry with Ezekiel, "Your rowers have brought you into great waters." I.
The east wind - Compare the marginal reference

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.

  • בְּמַ֤יִםon waters

    bemayimH4325 →581 times

  • רַבִּים֙many

    rabimH7227 →454 times

  • הֱבִיא֔וּךְthey brought you

    heviukhH935 →2568 times

  • הַשָּׁטִ֖יםthe rowers

    hashatimH7751 →

  • אֹתָ֑ךְ<obj.> you

    ʾotakhH853 →10935 times

  • ר֚וּחַ[the] wind of

    ruachH7307 →378 times

  • הַקָּדִ֔יםthe east

    hakadimH6921 →69 times

  • שְׁבָרֵ֖ךְit broke you

    shevarekhH7665 →147 times

  • בְּלֵ֥בin [the] heart of

    belevH3820 →595 times

  • יַמִּֽים׃[the] seas

    yamimH3220 →396 times

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

Related verses

13 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.

Psalms 48:7With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.4 worksEzekiel 26:19For 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,3 worksJeremiah 18:17I 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.”3 worksActs 27:14But it was not long before a cyclone called the Northeaster swept down across the island.3 worksActs 27:41But the vessel struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was being broken up by the pounding of the waves.3 worksJohn 6:19When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the sea—and they were terrified.3 works
The other 7 cross-references, with their words ▾
Revelation 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 worksEzekiel 27:34Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.2 worksIsaiah 33:23Your 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.2 worksPsalms 93:3–4The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.2 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.2 worksEzekiel 27:32As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: ‘Who was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?2 worksPsalms 107:23Others went out to sea in ships, conducting trade on the mighty waters.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

    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

    • 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 separate 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.

    it 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.”

    it 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.

    it 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.”

Where this verse is studied

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 9 works. Open the list of works

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1933: “"Your Rowers Have Brought You Into Great Waters"” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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