Ezekiel 26:17

26:17 They will sing this lament over you: ¹ 

“‘How you have perished – you have vanished ²  from the seas,

O renowned city, once mighty in the sea,

she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror! ³ 

Ezekiel 28:12

28:12 “Son of man, sing ⁴  a lament for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘You were the sealer ⁵  of perfection,

full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 32:2

32:2 “Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:

“‘You were like a lion ⁶  among the nations,

but you are a monster in the seas;

you thrash about in your streams,

stir up the water with your feet,

and muddy your ⁷  streams.

[26:17]  ¹ tn Heb “and they will lift up over you a lament and they will say to you.”

[26:17]  ² tn Heb “O inhabitant.” The translation follows the LXX and understands a different Hebrew verb, meaning “cease,” behind the consonantal text. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:72, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:43.

[26:17]  ³ tn Heb “she and her inhabitants who placed their terror to all her inhabitants.” The relationship of the final prepositional phrase to what precedes is unclear. The preposition probably has a specifying function here, drawing attention to Tyre’s inhabitants as the source of the terror mentioned prior to this. In this case, one might paraphrase verse 17b: “she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror; yes, her inhabitants (were the source of this terror).”

[28:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “lift up.”

[28:12]  ⁵ tn For a discussion of possible nuances of this phrase, see M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:580-81.

[32:2]  ⁷ tn The lion was a figure of royalty (Ezek 19:1-9).

[32:2]  ⁸ tc The Hebrew reads “their streams”; the LXX reads “your streams.”