All who live along the coastlands are appalled at your terrible fate. Their kings are filled with horror and look on with twisted faces.
Parallel translations
- WEB All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.
- KJV All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
- BSB All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.
- NKJV All the inhabitants of the isles will be astonished at you; Their kings will be greatly afraid, And their countenance will be troubled.
- NASB ‘All the inhabitants of the coastlands Are appalled at you, And their kings are horribly afraid; They have a troubled look.
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Quick answer
The coastland peoples are astonished and their kings horrified at Tyre's fall. It shows the fear her ruin strikes into onlookers.
Overview
Those who watched from afar are seized with dread, their faces troubled at the sudden collapse of so great a city. Tyre's fate forces them to reckon with their own vulnerability. The terror of the kings reveals how God's judgment unsettles the confidence of all who trust in earthly power and wealth.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Isa 23:6Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!
- Ezek 32:10Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
- Ezek 28:17–19Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
- Rev 18:9–10The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,
- 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?
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