KJV King James Version
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Ezekiel 27:26
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.
WEB World English Bible
Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
ASV American Standard Version
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Into great waters have they brought thee, Those rowing thee, The east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
Surrounding context — Ezekiel 27
23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were] thy merchants.
24 These [were] thy merchants in all sorts [of things], in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that [are] in thee, and in all thy company which [is] in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
Cross-references
Psalm 48:7Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.Acts 27:14But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.Ezekiel 26:19For 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;Isaiah 33:23Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.Revelation 17:15And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.Psalm 93:3-4The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.Ezekiel 27:34In 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.Acts 27:41And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
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