The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee, for envy is apt ever to produce a malicious joy when a rival is overthrown; thou shalt be a terror, an object of horror, and never shalt be any more. Cf.Ezekiel 26:21. It is a vividly impressive passage, which concludes this section of the prophecy against Tyrus, one setting forth the just wrath of a holy God.
Verse Ezekiel 27:36. _SHALL HISS AT THEE_] שרקו _shareku_, shall _shriek_ for thee. This powerfully expresses the sensation made on the feelings of the spectators on the shore when they saw the vessel...
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...
BE. become. ANY MORE. for ever. Compare Ezekiel 26:21....
THE MERCHANTS—SHALL HISS AT THEE— The Chaldee renders it, _They shall be astonished;_ and this sense agrees better with the lamentations of the sea-faring-men spoken of in the preceding verses. See Je...
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...
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...
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more. THE MERCHANTS AMONG THE PEOPLE SHALL HISS - with astonishment, as in . THE MERCHANTS AMONG T...
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
SHALL HISS AT THEE. — In Ezekiel 27:35 the prophet again drops the figure of the ship, and looking forward (as in Ezekiel 26:4; Ezekiel 26:12) to the end, speaks of the final and utter overthrow which...
סֹֽחֲרִים֙ בָּ֣ † עַמִּ֔ים שָׁרְק֖וּ עָלָ֑יִךְ בַּלָּהֹ֣ות
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,...
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt be] (n) any more. (n) By which is meant a long time: for it was prophesied to be destroyed but seventy year...
_Hissed, through pity and astonishment. (Calmet)_...
REFLECTIONS READER! pause over this Chapter, and remark the transitory state of everything earthly! What are become of all the great monarchies of the world? They, who made so great a noise, and boas...
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...
THE MERCHANTS AMONG THE PEOPLE SHALL HISS AT THEE,.... As Tyre had done at Jerusalem, Ezekiel 26:2 as she hoped to make better markets upon the fall of Jerusalem, and therefore rejoiced at it; so thes...
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt be] any more. Ver. 36. _The merchants shall hiss at thee._] Either as astonied at thee, or rather as deridi...
_When thy wares_, &c. When thy wares or manufactures were transported through the seas to every part, _thou filledst many people _ Didst supply the wants, or minister to the luxuries and pleasures, of...
A TERROR: _ Heb._ terrors NEVER SHALT BE ANY MORE: _ Heb._ shalt not be forever...
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...
HISS: this usually is an expression of scorn and contempt poured forth on the person hissed at; if thus understood, the meaning is, there should be some among Tyre's customers that would rejoice at he...
Ezekiel 27:36 merchants H5503 (H8802) peoples H5971 hiss H8319 (H8804) horror H1091 forever H5704 H5769...
“All the inhabitants of the coastlands, are appalled at you, And their kings are horribly afraid, their countenance is troubled, The merchants among the people hiss at you, you have become terrors ...
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...
_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...
1 Kings 9:8; Ezekiel 26:14; Ezekiel 26:2; Ezekiel 26:21; Jeremiah 18
Shall hiss — Will mock at thy fall....