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Ezekiel 28:19
All the nations who know you are appalled over you. You have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet Ezekiel delivers a divine oracle against a figure characterized by royal pride and extensive trade, immediately after describing how God's fire consumed him and reduced him to ashes.
The words — The Hebrew noun בַּלָּה֣וֹת (ba.la.Hot) translates literally as "terrors" or "horrible ends," and it functions independently before the verb הָיִ֔יתָ (ha.Yi.ta), "you became."
The thread — The pattern of sudden ruin and universal shock recurs in Ezekiel 26:21, where the target becomes an object of horror and will be sought but never found, and resurfaces in Revelation 18:15 and 18:21 as merchants and a mighty angel witness violent destruction.
Why it lands — The passage requires the reader to accept that political power and commercial networks offer no protection against divine judgment, demanding acknowledgment that human influence ends completely when God executes his verdict.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Cross-references
- 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.”
- Revelation 18:15 The merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her will stand at a distance, in fear of her torment. They will weep and mourn,
- Revelation 18:21 Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.
- Psalms 76:12 He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.
- Isaiah 14:16 Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,
- Jeremiah 51:63 When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
- Ezekiel 26:14 I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.’
- Ezekiel 27:35 All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.
- Revelation 18:9 Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.