Ezekiel 26:4
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
Ezekiel 26:4 in other translations
| BSB | They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock. |
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| WEB | They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. |
| ASV | And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. |
| YLT | And they have destroyed the walls of Tyre, And they have broken down her towers, And I have scraped her dust from her, And made her for a clear place of a rock. |
| DARBY | And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. And I will scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. |
| BBE | And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock |
| Webster | And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. |
What does Ezekiel 26:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 26:3-4
3-4. nations ... as the sea ... waves--In striking contrast to the boasting of Tyre, God threatens to bring against her Babylon's army levied from "many nations," even as the Mediterranean waves that dashed against her rock-founded city on all sides. scrape her dust ... make her ... top of ... rock--or, "a bare rock" [Grotius]. The soil which the Tyrians had brought together upon the rock on which they built their…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 26:1-14
A prophecy against Tyre. Verses 1-14 To be secretly pleased with the death or decay of others, when we are likely to get by it; or with their fall, when we may thrive upon it, is a sin that easily besets us, yet is not thought so bad as really it is. But it comes from a selfish, covetous principle, and from that love of the world as our happiness, which the love of God expressly forbids. He often blasts the projects…
Ezekiel 26:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezekiel 26:4
- Amos 1:10
But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
- Isaiah 23:11
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
- Ezekiel 26:9
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
- Zechariah 9:3
And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
- Leviticus 14:41-45
And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house. And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered; Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean. …
- Ezekiel 24:7-8
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
- Ezekiel 26:12
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
- Jeremiah 5:10
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.
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Context
- Ezekiel 26:3
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
- Ezekiel 26:4
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
- Ezekiel 26:5
It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
Ezekiel 26:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y demolerán los muros de Tiro, y derribarán sus torres: y raeré de ella su polvo, y la dejaré como una peña lisa. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et elles détruiront les murs de Tyr et renverseront ses tours; et je balaierai d’elle sa poussière, et je ferai d’elle un rocher nu. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und sie werden die Mauern von Tyrus zerstören und seine Türme abbrechen; und ich werde seine Erde von ihm wegfegen und es zu einem kahlen Felsen machen; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et dissipabunt muros Tyri, et destruent turres ejus: et radam pulverem ejus de ea, et dabo eam in limpidissimam petram. |