Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
- BSB Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 9
- Ps 48:7Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
- Jer 18:17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
- Ezek 26:19For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;
- Acts 27:14But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.
- Rev 17:15And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
- Isa 33:23Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
- Ezek 27:34In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
- Ps 93:3–4The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
- Acts 27:41And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
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