Text -- Ezekiel 27:28-36 (NET)

27:28 At the sound of your captains’ cry the waves will surge; 27:29 They will descend from their ships– all who handle the oar, the sailors and all the sea captains– they will stand on the land. 27:30 They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes; 27:31 they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth, and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning. 27:32 As they wail they will lament over you, chanting: “Who was like Tyre, like a tower in the midst of the sea?” 27:33 When your products went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth. 27:34 Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you. 27:35 All the inhabitants of the coastlands are shocked at you, and their kings are horribly afraid– their faces are troubled. 27:36 The traders among the peoples hiss at you; you have become a horror, and will be no more.’”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 27:28

¹ tn Compare this phrase to Isa 57:20 and Amos 8:8. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:561.

NET Notes: Eze 27:30

¹ tn Heb “make heard over you with their voice.”

² tn Note a similar expression to “roll in the ashes” in Mic 1:10.

NET Notes: Eze 27:31

¹ tn Heb “and they will weep concerning you with bitterness of soul, (with) bitter mourning.”

NET Notes: Eze 27:32

¹ tn As it stands, the meaning of the Hebrew text is unclear. The translation follows the suggestion of M. Dahood, “Accadian-Ugaritic dmt in Ezekiel 27:32,” Bib 45 (1964): 83-84. Several other explanations and emendations have been offered. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:83, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:85-86, for a list of options.

NET Notes: Eze 27:34

¹ tn Heb “fallen.”

² tn Heb “in the midst of you.”