Bible Strands
Ezekiel 27:36
Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Ezekiel delivers a prophetic oracle against a wealthy maritime city, addressing its merchants and neighboring nations at the moment of its collapse.
The words — שָׁרְקוּ (sha.re.Ku) = they have hissed, and בַּלּהֹת (ba.la.Hot) = terrors or a horrible end.
The thread — Observers reacting to ruin appears in Jeremiah 18:16, where passersby shake their heads at desolated land, and in Psalms 37:10 and 37:36, where the wicked pass away and become unfindable.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that commercial success ends in irreversible destruction, leaving former associates to express contempt rather than mourning.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 18:16 They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
- Psalms 37:10 Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
- Psalms 37:36 yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
- Jeremiah 19:8 I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
- Ezekiel 26:21 I will make you an object of horror, and you will be no more. You will be sought, but will never be found,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
- Zephaniah 2:15 This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
- 1 Kings 9:8 And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
- Jeremiah 49:17 “Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
- Jeremiah 50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.
- Lamentations 2:15 All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”