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Ezekiel 27:28 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" At the sound of the cry of your pilots, the pasture lands will shake. "
Ezekiel 27:28
Verse in Context
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26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
27 Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your company which is among you, will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.
28 At the sound of the cry of your pilots, the pasture lands will shake.
29 All who handle the oars, the mariners and all the pilots of the sea, will come down from their ships. They will stand on the land,
30 and will cause their voice to be heard over you, and will cry bitterly. They will cast up dust on their heads. They will wallow in the ashes.
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Ezekiel 27:1
"The LORD’s word came again to me, saying,"
Ezekiel 27:2
"“You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;"
Ezekiel 27:3
"and tell Tyre, ‘You who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, the Lord GOD says: “You, Tyre, have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’"
Ezekiel 27:4
"Your borders are in the heart of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty."
Ezekiel 27:5
"They have made all your planks of cypress trees from Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you."
Ezekiel 27:6
"They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan. They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in cypress wood from the islands of Kittim."
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