George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 26:18
Because. Hebrew, "at thy departure." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "into captivity." (St. Jerome)
Because. Hebrew, "at thy departure." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "into captivity." (St. Jerome)
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 s
Ezekiel 26:1. A lengthy prophecy concerning Tyrus is found in this and in the Chapter s which follow. These great predictions have found a startling fulfilment. History confirms all that Ezekiel spoke...
EZEKIEL 26. SIEGE AND DESTRUCTION OF TYRE. Tyre is the incarnation of unrestrained commercialism; and, in the mind of Ezekiel her doom is justified by the malicious joy with which she hailed the fall...
Lament of the princes over Tyre....
_the isles_ See on Ezekiel 26:15. The form of plur. nowhere else occurs, and appears to be adopted in order to gain a parallelism to "isles" (ordinary form) in the next clause. The phrase "at thy depa...
NOW SHALL THE ISLES TREMBLE— _Now the people are terrified at thy overthrow: Yea the isles of the sea are troubled at thy destruction._ Houbigant....
C. The Result of Tyre's Destruction 26:15-18 TRANSLATION (15) Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter occurs...
Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? SHALL NOT THE ISLES SHAKE AT THE SOUND...
§ 2. TYRE (AND SIDON) (EZEKIEL 26-28) Tyre was the capital of Phoenicia, the seaboard country on the NW. of Palestine. The Phoenicians were the great mariners of the ancient world, and Tyre was a famo...
EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 26 THE PUNISHMENT OF TYRE – EZEKIEL 26:1-14 V1 The *
THE ISLES TREMBLE. — “Isles” here, as elsewhere, includes coasts. It must be remembered how numerous the colonies of Phœnicia were. They had been established in Cyprus. Rhodes, Malta, Spain, Sicily, S...
עַתָּה֙ יֶחְרְד֣וּ הָֽ אִיִּ֔ן יֹ֖ום מַפַּלְתֵּ֑ךְ...
TYRE Ezekiel 26:1, Ezekiel 29:17 IN the time of Ezekiel Tyre was still at the height of her commercial prosperity. Although not the oldest of the Phoenician cities, she held a supremacy among them wh...
The doom of the two dealt with Tyre and Sidon, but principally with Tyre. Concerning her, the prophet first made a general statement describing her sin, and the judgment determined against her, declar...
Those that favor the idea of mystic Tyre being here spoken of, and not ancient Tyre, (which could never be so considerable in point of commerce and of riches), conclude, that what is here spoken refer...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 26, 27, AND 28. Although in a certain sense upon Israel's territory, Tyre has another character, and is the subject of a separate prophecy (chaps. 26-28), bec...
NOW SHALL THE ISLES TREMBLE IN THE DAY OF THY FALL,.... The isles near unto it, the isles of the Mediterranean sea; the inhabitants of them, the merchants who from thence traded with Tyre, the seafari...
_Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that [are] in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure._ Ver. 18. _Now shall the isles tremble._] And seeing thy shipwreck, they...
_Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall?_ All those that dwell upon the sea-coast near thee shall be thrown into a consternation at the news of thy being taken and destroyed. _All the prin...
Now shall the isles, the colonies imbued with this spirit, TREMBLE IN THE DAY OF THY FALL, frightened at the fall of the metropolis upon which they depended; YEA, THE ISLES THAT ARE IN THE SEA SHALL B...
THE EFFECT OF THE FALL OF TYRE...
15-21 See how high, how great Tyre had been. See how low Tyre is made. The fall of others should awaken us out of security. Every discovery of the fulfilment of a Scripture prophecy, is like a miracle...
THE ISLES; or ships; so it might be rendered; whether one or other, it is the fixing for the men, as isles for islanders, or ships for mariners. TREMBLE IN THE DAY OF THY FALL; apprehending that nothi...
Ezekiel 26:18 coastlands H339 tremble H2729 (H8799) day H3117 fall H4658 coastlands H339 sea H3220 troubled H926 ...
“And they will take up a lamentation for you, and say to you, ‘How you are destroyed from the seas, O inhabited one, O city renowned, Who was mighty in the seas, She and her inhabitants, Who caus...
THE FIRST ORACLE AGAINST TYRE (EZEKIEL 26:1)....
CONTENTS: Coming judgment upon Tyre. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: It is just with God to blast the designs and projects of those who contrive to raise themselves upon the ru...
Ezekiel 26:2. _Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha._ The Lord's people were not beloved among the gentile nations, because they were not what they seemed to be in regard to their holy temple. Havin...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 26:1 In terms of length, Ezekiel’s oracles against Tyre are second only to his oracles against Egypt (Ezekiel 29:1). This is probably because, of the nations addressed by Ezeki
THE FALL OF TYRE. (Chap. 26) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“In four sections, commencing with the formula, ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ Tyre, the mistress of the sea is threatened with destruction. In the first strophe...
EXPOSITION The prophetic messages against Ammon, Moab, Edom, and the Philistines were comparatively short. That against Tyre spreads over three chapters (Ezekiel 26:1). The special prominence thus giv...
Tonight turn in our Bibles to Ezekiel chapter 26. According to verse Ezekiel 26:1, this prophecy came to Ezekiel in the eleventh year of the king Zedekiah's reign, which would make it the year 586 B....
Ezekiel 26:15; Ezekiel 27:28; Isaiah 23:10; Isaiah 23:5...
In the sea — At a great distance, and farther from land. Departure — Leaving thy ancient dwelling, to go into captivity....