Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters, Tyre being once more represented as a stately vessel of the galley variety, driven by one or more rows of oars in the hands of powerful oarsmen. The east wind, which often blows in sudden, furious gusts, hath broken thee in the midst of the seas, in a shipwreck which meant the death-blow of Tyre in the midst of her glory.
Verse Ezekiel 27:26. _THY ROWERS HAVE BROUGHT THEE INTO GREAT WATERS_] Tyre is still considered under the allegory of a _ship_; and all the vessels of different nations trading with her are represent...
THE EAST WIND - Compare the marginal reference...
Ezekiel 27:1. Ezekiel 27:1 give an interesting description of the world-wide commerce and glory of this proud world city. “Sic transit gloria mundi,” thus passeth the glory of the world! Of the proud...
EZEKIEL 27. THE DIRGE OVER TYRE. The interest of the brilliant poem that follows is greatly enhanced by the description of the commerce of Tyre in a passage (Ezekiel 27:9_ b_ - Ezekiel 27:25_ a_) rema...
THY ROWERS. Continuing the symbol of. ship, used of Tyre in this chapter. WIND. Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9....
The vessel steered by her pilots into dangerous waters, is shipwrecked and her cargo and crew cast into the sea (Ezekiel 27:26). Dismay and lamentation of all seafaring men (Ezekiel 27:28) 26. The all...
THY ROWERS HAVE BROUGHT THEE INTO GREAT WATERS— This is a proper allegory, says Bishop Warburton, with only one real sense; and it is managed by the prophet with that brevity and expedition, which a p...
C. The Ship Sinking Beneath the Waves 27:25b-36 TRANSLATION (25b) So you became full and very heavy[418] in the heart of the seas. (26) Into great waters your rowers have brought you; the east wind h...
II. THE LAMENTATION OVER TYRE 27:1-36 Chapter 27 consists of an allegorical dirge song artistically interrupted by a prose section. Tyre is pictured as a beautiful ship superbly fitted out and manned...
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. THY ROWERS HAVE BROUGHT THEE INTO GREAT WATERS: THE EAST WIND HATH BROKEN THEE. In contrast...
THE WRECK OF THE GALLANT SHIP Under the figure of a ship, splendidly equipped, fully manned, and richly laden, but steered into stormy waters and wrecked, Ezekiel describes the fall of Tyre. In Ezeki...
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 27 A FUNERAL SONG FOR TYRE – EZEKIEL 27:1-11 V1 The
THY ROWERS. — As the chief means of propelling vessels when the art of sailing was imperfectly understood. The figure of the ship is here resumed. “The east wind” is powerful, gusty, and dangerous in...
בְּ מַ֤יִם רַבִּים֙ הֱבִיא֔וּךְ הַ שָּׁטִ֖ים...
TYRE (CONTINUED): SIDON Ezekiel 27:1; Ezekiel 28:1 THE remaining oracles on Tyre (Chapter s 27, Ezekiel 28:1) are somewhat different both in subject and mode of treatment from the chapter we have jus...
At the command of Jehovah, Ezekiel then took up a lamentation for Tyre. This took the form of a pictorial representation of her as a gallant ship trafficking among the nations and ultimately wrecked,...
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the (l) east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. (l) That is, Nebuchadnezzar....
_South. Hebrew kodim, (Haydock) "eastern," or rather "burning," here means Nabuchodonosor, who came from the north, (chap. xxvi. 7.; Calmet) or east. The fall of Tyre is described as a shipwreck. (Hay...
I have not interrupted the reading of the whole Chapter, for from the beginning to the close of the Chapter, it is but one and the same subject. The riches, trade, and commerce of Tyrus, fills the who...
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...
THY ROWERS HAVE BROUGHT THEE INTO GREAT WATERS,.... Here the city of Tyre is compared to a vessel at sea, with great propriety, it being built in the sea, and its trade chiefly there; and its rulers a...
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. Ver. 26. _Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters._] _Narrat Tyri naufragium._ Here beg...
_Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters_ The prophet here begins to change the subject, and now, in metaphorical language, speaks of the danger into which the rulers and statesmen of Tyre had...
MIDST: _ Heb._ heart...
26-36 The most mighty and magnificent kingdoms and states, sooner or later, come down. Those who make creatures their confidence, and rest their hopes upon them, will fall with them: happy are those...
THY ROWERS, governors and counsellors, HAVE BROUGHT THEE, unadvisedly, into great waters, dangers and difficulties, in which thou art like to be shipwrecked, in which thou wilt perish. THE EAST WIND,...
Ezekiel 27:26 oarsmen H7751 (H8801) brought H935 (H8689) many H7227 waters H4325 east H6921 wind H7307 broke...
“So you were loaded (replenished) and heavily laden (made very glorious), in the heart of the seas. Your rowers have brought you out, into great waters, The east wind has broken you up, in the heart...
CONTENTS: Lamentation for Tyre. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: God takes notice of the vain conceits men have of themselves in their prosperity. When they pride themselves on pomp and pleasur...
Ezekiel 27:6. _The isles of Chittim._ Cilicia, Cyprus, Macedonia, the Greek islands, or Apulia on the shores of Italy. Thus critics take the word in a general sense. Ezekiel 27:9. _Gebal,_ a district...
_Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters._ “THY ROWERS HAVE BROUGHT THEE INTO GREAT WATERS” I. This is truly applicable to sinners who are beginning to taste of the result of their sins--ungo...
_Take up a lamentation for Tyrus._ A PROUD CITY The men of the world are wise, choosing the fittest places for their own advantage and interest. Let us learn so much of the men of the world, to be w...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 27:1 This second installment of the prophecy against TYRE is both simple and complex. It follows a simple story line, in the form of a lament, but the language and technical de...
TYRE’S FORMER GREATNESS, SUGGESTING A LAMENTATION OVER HER SAD DOWNFALL (Chap. 27) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“The lamentation commences with a picture of the glory of the city of Tyre, its situation, its arch...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 27:2 TAKE UP A LAMENTATION FOR TYRUS. The dirge over the merchant-city that follows, the doom _sic transit gloria mundi, _worked out with a fullness of detail which reminds us of t...
So the word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation (Ezekiel 27:1-2) This is a wailing, a cry for Tyrus. This is lamenting the destruction that is come. An...
Acts 27:14; Acts 27:41; Ezekiel 26:19; Ezekiel 27:34; Isaiah 33:23;...
Thy rowers — Thy governors and counsellors. Great waters — Dangers and difficulties. The east wind — The king of Babylon with his army. Hath broken — As surely will, as if he had already done it. In t...