Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
come down from their thrones . . . upon the ground—"the throne of the mourners" (Job 2:13; Jonah 3:6).
princes of the sea—are the merchant rulers of Carthage and other colonies of Tyre, who had made themselves rich and powerful by trading on the sea (Isaiah 23:8).
clothe . . . with trembling—Hebrew, "tremblings." Compare Ezekiel 7:27, "clothed with desolation"; Psalms 132:18. In a public calamity the garment was changed for a mourning garb.
The impression which the overthrow of Tyre produced on other maritime nations and upon her own colonies, for example, Utica, Carthage, and Tartessus or Tarshish in Spain.
isles—maritime lands. Even mighty Carthage used to send a yearly offering to the temple of Hercules at Tyre: and the mother city gave high priests to her colonies. Hence the consternation at her fall felt in the widely scattered dependencies with which she was so closely connected by the ties of religion, as well as commercial intercourse.
shake—metaphorically: "be agitated" (Jeremiah 49:21).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezekiel 26:16:
Isaiah 23:4
Isaiah 23:14
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