In 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.
Parallel translations
- WEB In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company fell within you.
- BSB Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.
- NKJV But you are broken by the seas in the depths of the waters; Your merchandise and the entire company will fall in your midst.
- NASB ‘Now that you are broken by the seas In the depths of the waters, Your merchandise and all your company Have fallen in the midst of you.
- NLT Now you are a wrecked ship, broken at the bottom of the sea. All your merchandise and crew have gone down with you.
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Quick answer
Now broken by the seas, Tyre's merchandise and people sink with her. It restates the totality of her shipwreck.
Overview
The lament returns to the image of the wrecked ship swallowed by the deep, taking down all her goods and company. The repetition reinforces the irreversibility of the loss. What was the source of her pride, the sea, becomes her grave, a vivid emblem of judgment overtaking misplaced trust.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Ezek 27:26–27Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
- Zech 9:3–4And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
- Ezek 26:19–21For 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;
- Ezek 26:12–15And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
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