Ezekiel 27:25-31

27:25 The ships of Tarshish ¹  were the transports for your merchandise.

“‘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.

27:27 Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains,

your ship’s carpenters, ²  your merchants,

and all your fighting men within you,

along with all your crew who are in you,

will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.

27:28 At the sound of your captains’ cry the waves will surge; ³ 

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 ⁴  over you and cry bitterly.

They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes; ⁵ 

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. ⁶ 

[27:25]  ¹ tn Or perhaps “Large merchant ships.” The expression “ships of Tarshish” may describe a class of vessel, that is, large oceangoing merchant ships.

[27:27]  ² tn Heb “your repairers of damage.” See v. 9.

[27:28]  ³ tn Compare this phrase to Isa 57:20 and Amos 8:8. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:561.

[27:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “make heard over you with their voice.”

[27:30]  ⁵ tn Note a similar expression to “roll in the ashes” in Mic 1:10.

[27:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they will weep concerning you with bitterness of soul, (with) bitter mourning.”