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Ezekiel 27:34

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Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the midst of thee.

KJV

In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.

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This verse in Ezekiel 27

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(Verse 33 and following) What is like Tyre, that has become silent (or has been silenced) in the middle of the sea? (Which is not found in the Septuagint.) Who, in the outcome of your dealings (or what reward you received) from the sea, enriched many peoples? In the abundance of your wealth, and with the multitude of your people, you made many kings wealthy. Now you are broken by the sea (or in the sea) in the depths of the waters, your wealth (or your trading) and all your multitude, which was in your midst, have fallen.

This site's exposition

You enriched the kings of the earth

on Ezekiel 27:33-36

The judgment lands in the same commercial terms it built the lament in, and the merchants among the people shall hiss at thee. Keil reads the final line, thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more, as closing on the note chapter 26 closed on.

This site's exposition

shattered by the seas in the depths

The verse answers verse 33 line for line. The sea that carried Tyre's wares out to many nations now carries its people to the bottom. One sea receives both.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

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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In the time when thou shall be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters.....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

There is an end of Tyre, that made such a noise and bustle in the world. This great blaze goes out in a snuff. How the fall of Tyre should be matter of terror to some and laughter to others, according as they were differently interested and affected.

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.

  • עֵ֛ת[the] time

    ʾetH6256 →296 times

  • נִשְׁבֶּ֥רֶתbeing broken

    nishberetH7665 →147 times

  • מִיַּמִּ֖יםfrom [the] seas

    miyamimH3220 →396 times

  • בְּמַֽעֲמַקֵּי־in [the] depths of

    bemaamakei-H4615 →

  • מָ֑יִם[the] water

    mayimH4325 →581 times

  • מַעֲרָבֵ֥ךְmerchandise your

    maaravekhH4627 →9 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • קְהָלֵ֖ךְcompany your

    kehalekhH6951 →123 times

  • בְּתוֹכֵ֥ךְin [the] midst of you

    betokhekhH8432 →418 times

  • נָפָֽלוּ׃they have fallen

    nafaluH5307 →435 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.

Zechariah 9:3–4Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.3 worksEzekiel 27:26–27Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.3 worksEzekiel 28:8They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.3 worksEzekiel 26:19–21For 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,2 worksEzekiel 26:12–15They will plunder your wealth and pillage your merchandise. They will demolish your walls, tear down your beautiful homes, and throw your stones and timber and soil into the water.2 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.2 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
Exodus 15:5The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.2 worksEzekiel 27:27Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.2 works

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.
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read Ezekiel 27 →

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel and Patrick Fairbairn, Ezekiel and the Book of His Prophecy.

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