Ezekiel 27:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Thy riches

Shall fall

Ezekiel 26:14

Midst

Ezekiel 27:26

General references

Isaiah 23:14

Jeremiah 49:26

Ezekiel 27:34

Bible References

Thy riches

The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade.

They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

And the traders of the earth are weeping and crying over her, because no man has any more desire for their goods,

Shall fall

I will make you an uncovered rock: you will be a place for the stretching out of nets; there will be no building you up again: for I the Lord have said it, says the Lord.

Midst

Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.

General references

Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste

So her young men will be falling in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord of armies.

Now that you are broken by the seas in the deep waters, your goods and all your people will go down with you.