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Ezekiel 26:15
This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: ‘Will not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan at the slaughter in your midst?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Lord GOD addresses Tyre directly, delivering this oracle immediately after declaring the city will become a bare rock for spreading fishing nets and never be rebuilt.
The words — The Hebrew כֹּה (koh) and אָמַר ('amar) open the message with "Thus says," while the rhetorical particle הֲלֹא (halo) frames the prophecy as "will not," and מִקּוֹל (miqol) specifies "from the sound of."
The thread — This pattern of distant regions reacting to a city's collapse runs through Ezekiel 26:18 and Ezekiel 27:35, and aligns with Jeremiah 49:21 where the earth quakes at the noise of a fall.
Why it lands — The text states that coastal lands will physically tremble and wounded survivors will groan at the noise of Tyre's destruction. This demands a reader acknowledge that the city's fall will be measured by the visceral, widespread reaction of those who witness it.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 27:35 All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.
- Jeremiah 49:21 At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.
- Ezekiel 26:18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.”’
- Ezekiel 31:16 I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.
- Isaiah 2:19 Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
- Ezekiel 27:28 The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.
- Ezekiel 32:10 I will cause many peoples to be appalled over you, and their kings will shudder in horror because of you when I brandish My sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.’
- Hebrews 12:26 At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well.”