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Ezekiel 27:26 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. "
Ezekiel 27:26
Verse in Context
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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.
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.
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
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Ezekiel 27:1
"The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 27:2
"Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;"
Ezekiel 27:3
"And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty."
Ezekiel 27:4
"Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty."
Ezekiel 27:5
"They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts"
Ezekiel 27:6
"Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim."
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