Ezekiel 26:17-19

International Standard Version

¹⁷They’ll sing this mourning song for you:

“How lost you are,
    you inhabited city,
        that was built in the middle of the sea!
How famous you were!
    How strong on the sea!
She and her inhabitants
    inflicted^[a] terror to everyone
        who lived within her.”

¹⁸‘Now the coastland inhabitants
    will tremble on the day that you fall.
The coastland inhabitants,
    who make their living from^[b] the sea,
        will be terrified when you pass away!’

¹⁹“This is what the Lord God says: ‘When I turn your city into a ghost town, when I flood you with deep water that covers you completely,

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Footnotes

Ezekiel 26:17 Lit. inhabitants who inflicted
Ezekiel 26:18 Lit. who are by

Ezekiel 26:17-19

New International Version

¹⁷Then they will take up a lament^(A) concerning you and say to you:

“‘How you are destroyed, city of renown,
    peopled by men of the sea!
You were a power on the seas,
    you and your citizens;
you put your terror
    on all who lived there.^(B)
¹⁸Now the coastlands tremble^(C)
    on the day of your fall;
the islands in the sea
    are terrified at your collapse.’^(D)

¹⁹“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths^(E) over you and its vast waters cover you,^(F)

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Ezekiel 26:17-19

King James Version

¹⁷And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

¹⁸Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.

¹⁹For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;

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