Ezekiel 26:19

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — God speaks through Ezekiel to Tyre, pronouncing judgment immediately after describing the coastal regions' reaction to the city's fall.

The words — The phrase כֹּה אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה (koh amar Adonai Yahweh) functions as a formal divine decree, while בְּתִתִּי (b'titti) emphasizes God's direct agency in reducing the city to desolation.

The thread — The motif of overwhelming waters aligns with Isaiah 8:7's description of Assyrian invasion as a flood, and the desolation theme continues in Ezekiel 26:20 where Tyre is cast into the Pit with ancient ruins.

Why it lands — The passage requires the reader to acknowledge that historical conquest and geographical catastrophe are the concrete instruments of divine judgment, not symbolic abstractions.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

For 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;

Cross-references

Isaiah 8:7 the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
Ezekiel 26:3 therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Daniel 9:26 Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
Daniel 11:40 At the time of the end, the king of the South will engage him in battle, but the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots, horsemen, and many ships, invading many countries and sweeping through them like a flood.
Revelation 17:15 Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.