The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.
Parallel translations
- WEB At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake.
- KJV The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
- NKJV The common-land will shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots.
- NASB “At the sound of the cry of your sailors, The pasture lands will shake.
- NLT Your cities by the sea tremble as your pilots cry out in terror.
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Quick answer
At the cry of her pilots the surrounding lands shake. It conveys the wide-reaching shock of Tyre's collapse.
Overview
The anguished cry of the doomed pilots reverberates so that even distant shores tremble. The wider world, dependent on Tyre's trade, feels the tremor of her fall. This ripple of dismay introduces the mourning of the seafaring nations that follows, magnifying the scale of the catastrophe.
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Cross-references · 6
- Ezek 26:10His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.
- Exod 15:14The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.
- Ezek 31:16I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.
- Ezek 27:35All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.
- Ezek 26:15–18This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: ‘Will not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan at the slaughter in your midst?
- Nah 2:3The shields of his mighty men are red; the valiant warriors are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariots flash like fire on the day they are prepared, and the spears of cypress have been brandished.
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