At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake.
Parallel translations
- KJV The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
- 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 you: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as men enter into a city in which is made a breach.
- Exod 15:14The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
- Ezek 31:16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
- Ezek 27:35All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.
- Ezek 26:15–18Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made within you?
- Nah 2:3The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
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