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The news of Tyre’s ruin shall reach to distant isles, to merchant
cities who trade with her. These in their selfish love of gain shall
rejoice over her who was once paramount over them, hissing out ag...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and
their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their
countenance.
ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE ISLES - i:e., the inhabi...
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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...
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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
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כֹּ֚ל יֹשְׁבֵ֣י הָ אִיִּ֔ים שָׁמְמ֖וּ
עָלָ֑יִךְ...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE ISLES SHALL BE ASTONISHED AT THEE,.... Both
near and afar off; and not only the inhabitants of the isles, properly
so called, but all that dwelt on the continent by the seas...
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_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...
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All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, all
those who had the benefit of Tyre's commerce standing aghast at her
downfall, AND THEIR KINGS, their merchant rulers, SHALL BE SORE
AF...
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THE FALL OF TYRE...
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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...
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THE ISLES; strictly and in a larger sense the seacoasts. ASTONISHED;
wondering it ever should be effected that Tyre should fall. SORE
AFRAID: knowing how they are much less able to resist and defend
t...
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Ezekiel 27:35 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) isles H339 astonished H8074
(H8804) kings H4428 greatly H8178 afraid H8175
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“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 ...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 26:15; Ezekiel 28:17; Ezekiel 32:10; Isaiah 23:6;...
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Troubled — They shall not be able to conceal the discomposure of
their mind, but will shew it in their countenance....