Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
- KJV Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
- NKJV Your oarsmen brought you into many waters, But the east wind broke you in the midst of the seas.
- NASB ¶“Your rowers have brought you Into great waters; The east wind has broken you In the heart of the seas.
- NLT “But look! Your oarsmen have taken you into stormy seas! A mighty eastern gale has wrecked you in the heart of the sea!
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Quick answer
Her rowers brought her into deep waters, but the east wind broke her in the heart of the seas. It marks the sudden shipwreck of Tyre.
Overview
The lament pivots: the splendid ship, driven into the open sea, is shattered by the east wind, a frequent biblical image of God's judgment. The very element of her glory becomes the means of her destruction. This dramatic reversal shows how swiftly the Lord can bring down the proud, no matter how impressive their achievements.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 48:7With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
- Jer 18:17I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
- Ezek 26:19For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,
- Acts 27:14But it was not long before a cyclone called the Northeaster swept down across the island.
- Rev 17:15Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
- Isa 33:23Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.
- Ezek 27:34Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.
- Ps 93:3–4The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
- Acts 27:41But the vessel struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was being broken up by the pounding of the waves.
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