3:16 At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: 1
“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.
27:26 Your rowers have brought you into surging waters.
The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.
1 sn This phrase occurs about fifty times in the book of Ezekiel.
2 tn Or perhaps “Large merchant ships.” The expression “ships of Tarshish” may describe a class of vessel, that is, large oceangoing merchant ships.
3 tn Heb “fill its hands.”