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Ezekiel 27:33
When your wares went out to sea, you satisfied many nations. You enriched the kings of the earth with your abundant wealth and merchandise.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet Ezekiel addresses the merchant city of Tyre as he pronounces a formal lament over its impending destruction. The oracle recounts the city's past commercial dominance immediately before detailing its sudden maritime ruin.
The words — The verse highlights עִזְבוֹנַ֙יִ/ךְ֙ (iz.vo.Na.yi/kh) for "your wares" and הִשְׂבַּ֖עַתְּ (his.Ba.'at) for "you satisfied." These terms literally describe the physical departure of merchandise and the resulting fullness of foreign markets.
The thread — This pattern of maritime commerce satisfying nations appears in Isaiah 23:3, which links Tyre’s revenue to the Nile’s harvest, and anticipates the commercial judgment in Revelation 18:19. Ezekiel 27:3 also establishes Tyre’s identity as a merchant of the peoples on many coasts.
Why it lands — The text states that Tyre’s departure of goodsI have to answer now.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
Cross-references
- Revelation 18:19 Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.”
- Isaiah 23:3 On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.
- Ezekiel 27:3 Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
- Ezekiel 27:12 Tarshish was your merchant because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.
- Ezekiel 28:4 By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries.
- Ezekiel 28:16 By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
- Revelation 18:3 All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”
- Revelation 18:12 cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;