Ezekiel 27:30
What does Ezekiel 27:30 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 27:30 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
KJV
King James Version · 1611And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And have sounded for thee with their voice, And cry bitterly, and cause dust to go up on their heads, In ashes they do roll themselves.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they shall mourn over thee with a loud voice and shall cry bitterly: and they shall cast up dust upon their heads and shall be sprinkled with ashes.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly; and they shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in ashes.
Context
v.29And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand upon the land,
v.30This passage
v.31and they shall make themselves bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 2:8
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
- Revelation 18:9
And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and lived wantonly with her, shall weep and wail over her, when they look upon the smoke of her burning,
- Micah 1:10
Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth-le-aphrah have I rolled myself in the dust.
- Esther 4:1
Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
- Job 42:6
Wherefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.
- Isaiah 23:1
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
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