26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
But before long, a tempestuous wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon.{Or, "a northeaster."}
The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves. Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of you.
But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.
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Commentary on Ezekiel 27 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 27
Still we are attending the funeral of Tyre and the lamentations made for the fall of that renowned city. In this chapter we have,
And this is intended to stain the pride of all worldly glory, and, by setting the one over-against the other, to let us see the vanity and uncertainty of the riches, honours, and pleasures of the world, and what little reason we have to place our happiness in them or to be confident of the continuance of them; so that all this is written for our learning.
Eze 27:1-25
Here,
Eze 27:26-36
We have seen Tyre flourishing; here we have Tyre falling, and great is the fall of it, so much the greater for its having made such a figure in the world. Note, The most mighty and magnificent kingdoms and states, sooner or later, have their day to come down. They have their period; and, when they are in their zenith, they will begin to decline. But the destruction of Tyre was sudden. Her sun went down at noon. And all her wealth and grandeur, pomp and power, did but aggravate her ruin, and make it the more grievous to herself and astonishing to all about her. Now observe here,