Ezekiel 27:36
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Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
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Still we are attending the funeral of Tyre and the lamentations made for the fall of that renowned city. In this chapter we have, I. A large account of the dignity, wealth, and splendour of Tyre, while it was in its strength, the vast trade it drove, and the interest it had among the nations (v. 1-25), which is designed to make its ruin the more lamentable. II. A prediction of its fall and ruin, and the confusion and consternation which all its neighbours shall thereby be put into (Eze 27:26-36). And this is intended to stain the pride of all worldly glory, and, by setting the one over-against the other, to let us see the vanity and uncertainty of the riches, honours, and pleasures of the world, and what little reason we have to place our happiness in them or to be confident of the continuance of them; so that all this is written for our learning.
Open source ↗27:36 Tyre’s former occupants and her former trading partners join the lament for her lost way of life. This panel, like the previous one, ends with the statement that Tyre has come to a horrible end and will exist no more (cp. 26:21).
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They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
I will make you an object of horror, and you will be no more. You will be sought, but will never be found,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’