Ezekiel 26:15

13 ^aI will put an end to the sound of ^byour songs, and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more.

14 ^aI will make you like the top of a rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets, and you shall never be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken,’ says the Lord God.

15 “Thus says the Lord God to Tyre: ‘Will the coastlands not ^ashake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when slaughter is made in the midst of you?

16 Then all the ^aprinces of the sea will ^bcome down from their thrones, lay aside their robes, and take off their embroidered garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; ^cthey will sit on the ground, ^dtremble every moment, and ^ebe astonished at you.

17 And they will take up a ^alamentation for you, and say to you:
“How you have perished,
O one inhabited by seafaring men,
O renowned city,
Who was ^bstrong at sea,
She and her inhabitants,
Who caused their terror to be on all her inhabitants!

18 Now ^athe coastlands tremble on the day of your fall;
Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled at your departure.” ’

19 “For thus says the Lord God: ‘When I make you a desolate city, like cities that are not inhabited, when I bring the deep upon you, and great waters cover you,

20 then I will bring you down ^awith those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you may never be inhabited; and I shall establish glory ^bin the land of the living.

21 ^aI will make you a terror, and you shall be no more; ^bthough you are sought for, you will never be found again,’ says the Lord God.”

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Ezekiel 26:15-21

The effect of the fall of Tyre.

Ezekiel 26:16

Clothe themselves with trembling - Mourners change their bright robes for sad garments.

Ezekiel 26:17

Of seafaring men - literally, "from the seas," i. e., occupied by men who come from the seas. Tyre was an inhabited city rising from out of the sea.

Ezekiel 26:20

Compare Isaiah 14:9. The image used by Isaiah and Jeremiah of Babylon is by Ezekiel applied to Tyre, as if to show that Tyre and Babylon alike represent the world-power. So, in the Book of Revelation, Babylon is the kingdom of Antichrist.

The land of the living - The land of the true God, as opposed to the land of the dead, to which is gathered the glory of the world. Here then, together with the utter ruin of Tyre, rises the vision of renewed glory to Jerusalem. The coming Messiah is thus propheticly pointed out. The over-throw of God' s enemies shall be accompanied by the establishment of His true kingdom.

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