When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.
Parallel translations
- KJV As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
- BSB When the report reaches Egypt, they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.
- NKJV When the report reaches Egypt, They also will be in agony at the report of Tyre.
- NASB When the report reaches Egypt, They will be in anguish over the report of Tyre.
- NLT When Egypt hears the news about Tyre, there will be great sorrow.
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Quick answer
News of Tyre's fall will bring anguish to Egypt. Nations bound to Tyre by trade tremble at her collapse.
Overview
Egypt, a major trading partner, will writhe in distress when Tyre falls, because their economies were intertwined. The verse shows judgment's ripple effect through the network of nations. It reminds readers that worldly alliances offer no security when God acts.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Josh 2:9–11She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
- Exod 15:14–16The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
- Ezek 26:15–21Thus 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?
- Ezek 27:29–36All who handled the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand on the land,
- Rev 18:17–19For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
- Ezek 28:19All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you: you have become a terror, and you shall exist no more.
- Isa 19:16In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of Yahweh of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them.
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