The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
Parallel translations
- WEB At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake.
- BSB The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ezek 26:10By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
- Exod 15:14The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
- Ezek 31:16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
- Ezek 27:35All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
- Ezek 26:15–18Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
- Nah 2:3The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
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