Ezekiel 27:26
What does Ezekiel 27:26 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 27:26 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Into great waters have they brought thee, Those rowing thee, The east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind hath broken thee in the heart of the sea.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters; the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
Context
v.25The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.
v.26This passage
v.27Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the dealers in thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 33:23
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.
- Revelation 17:15
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
- Acts 27:14
But after no long time there beat down from it a tempestuous wind, which is called Euraquilo:
- Jeremiah 18:17
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
- Ezekiel 27:34
In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the midst of thee.
- Psalms 93:3
The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves.
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