I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
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I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
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I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
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I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more; though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.'
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 26:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 27:36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you. You have become a terror, and you will be no more.” ’ ”
- Ezekiel 28:19 All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you. You have become a terror, and you will exist no more.” ’ ”
- Revelation 18:21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
- Psalms 37:36 But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
- Jeremiah 51:64 Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
- Ezekiel 26:14-16 I will make you a bare rock. You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more; for I Yahweh have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh. “The Lord Yahweh says to Tyre: ‘Won’t the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made within you? Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, make thee a terror.
Or, make thee a terror.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 26:21 I will make thee a terror, and…
Eze 26:21 I will make thee a terror, and thou [shalt be] no [more]: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
Ver. 21. Yet shalt thou never be found again.] See on Eze 26:14.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain A terror, or consumption; I will utterly consume thee;…
A terror, or consumption; I will utterly consume thee; with more than one kind of destruction will I destroy thee, and make thee thereby a terror to all that hear the bruit of thee.
Thou shalt be no more: see Eze 26:14. If any will be so curious as to inquire, if they come to seek out the footsteps of this ancient Tyre, they shall lose their labour, no signs of it On the rock where once it stood. Rich, populous, potent, wise, renowned Tyre, as once thou wast, shalt never more be found; and, alas, that which is now on the continent is not fit to bear its name, much less to be counted the same city.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain A terror - To all that hear of thee.
A terror - To all that hear of thee.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 21. Yet shalt thou never be found again]…
Verse 21. Yet shalt thou never be found again] This is literally true; there is not the smallest vestige of the ancient Tyre, that which was erected on the main land. Even the ground seems to have been washed away; and the new Tyre is in nearly a similar state. I think this prophecy must be extended to the whole duration of Tyre. If it now be found to be in the state here described, it is sufficient to show the truth of the prophecy. And now it is found precisely in the state which the above prophetic declarations, taken according to the letter, point out! No word of God can ever fall to the ground.
Notwithstanding the former destructions, Tyre was a place of some consequence in the time of St. Paul. There was a Church there, (see Ac 21:3-4, &c.,) which afterwards became famous. Calmet observes, it afforded a great number of martyrs for the Christian Church.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain For ever: for a long time, (Theodoret) not at…
For ever: for a long time, (Theodoret) not at all in thy ancient glory. (Haydock) --- The city subsisted after the days of Nabuchodonosor and of Alexander [the Great], (Calmet) ver. 14. --- But the ancient city was reduced to a mere nothing. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain terror--an example of judgment calculated to terrify all evildoers.
terror--an example of judgment calculated to terrify all evildoers.
thou shall be no more--Not that there was to be no more a Tyre, but she was no more to be the Tyre that once was: her glory and name were to be no more. As, to Old Tyre, the prophecy was literally fulfilled, not a vestige of it being left.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21. Terror — Literally, destruction. I will entirely destroy…
21. Terror — Literally, destruction. I will entirely destroy thee (Eze_27:36; Eze_28:19).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. make thee a terror] lit., terrors or destructions—I…
21. make thee a terror] lit., terrors or destructions—I will utterly destroy thee, Eze_27:36, Eze_28:19; cf. Psa_73:19. On “make” cf. Eze_16:38.
The passage Eze_29:17-21 states that Nebuchadnezzar received no adequate reward for the service against Tyre which he served for Jehovah. History records his thirteen years’ siege of Tyre, but is silent as to the issue of it. It is not known (1) whether he took the city, or (2) whether it capitulated, or (3) whether he retired from it. On the whole the second supposition may be most probable. At any rate neither the king nor his army received wages for his service. The prophecy was not literally fulfilled. Now
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain I will make thee a terror. Ewald translates, "To…
I will make thee a terror. Ewald translates, "To sudden death will I bring thee," which corresponds with the margin of the Revised Version, I will make thee a destruction.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt…
Eze_26:21
I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more.
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The humiliation of Tyre
All prophecy is moral, is based on moral considerations. What the prophet aims his threats against is not the prosperity of Tyre, but its pride of heart, which was rebellion against Jehovah--God over all. The humiliation of Tyre was morally as good as its ruins, in so far as it showed that there were higher forces in the world than itself. (A. B. Davidson.)
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