Ezekiel 27:36
in Ezekiel 27Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou shalt nevermore have any being.
KJV
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
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This verse in Ezekiel 27
Commentary
7 notes on this verseThe merchants among the people shall hiss at thee,.... As Tyre had done at Jerusalem, Eze 26:2 as she hoped to make better markets upon the fall of Jerusalem, and therefore rejoiced at it; so these merchants upon her fall will hope that her trade will come into their hands, and therefore despise her, hiss, and laugh at her in her abject state.
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
Those who trade among the nations hiss
Hissing, or whistling, was a sound of shock and scorn at a ruin. Passersby make the same sound at the ruined temple in 1 Kings 9:8. The merchants turn it on the city that enriched them.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(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.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
She triumphed in Jerusalem's fall, and there are those that will triumph in hers. When God casts his judgments on the sinner men also shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out of his place, Job xxvii. Is this the city which men called the perfection of beauty?
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
Shall hiss at thee - שרקו shareku, shall shriek for thee. This powerfully expresses the sensation made on the feelings of the spectators on the shore when they saw the vessel swallowed up.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| סֹֽחֲרִים֙ | socharim | traders | H5503 → | 21 times |
| בָּ֣עַמִּ֔ים | baamim | among the peoples | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| שָׁרְק֖וּ | shareku | they have hissed | H8319 → | |
| עָלָ֑יִךְ | ʾalayikh | on you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| בַּלָּה֣וֹת | balahot | terrors | H1091 → | 10 times |
| הָיִ֔ית | hayit | you have become | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| וְאֵינֵ֖ךְ | veeinekh | and there not [will be] you | H369 → | 789 times |
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| עוֹלָֽם׃ ס | olam | perpetuity | H5769 → | 438 times |
סֹֽחֲרִים֙traders
socharimH5503 →21 times
בָּ֣עַמִּ֔יםamong the peoples
baamimH5971 →1873 times
שָׁרְק֖וּthey have hissed
sharekuH8319 →
עָלָ֑יִךְon you
ʾalayikhH5921 →5755 times
בַּלָּה֣וֹתterrors
balahotH1091 →10 times
הָיִ֔יתyou have become
hayitH1961 →3559 times
וְאֵינֵ֖ךְand there not [will be] you
veeinekhH369 →789 times
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
עוֹלָֽם׃ סperpetuity
olamH5769 →438 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Psalms 37:36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
it leads to
- Psalms 37:10
Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
- Acts 12:22–23
And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”
- Psalms 37:10
Through
Jeremiah 18:16They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
it leads to
- Psalms 22:7
All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
- Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents,…
- Jeremiah 19:8
I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
- Psalms 22:7
Through
Jeremiah 19:8I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 18:16
They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
- Jeremiah 18:16
Through
Zephaniah 2:15This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 28:2
“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of…
- Isaiah 47:7–8
You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
- Ezekiel 28:2
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.