Ezekiel 27 · Verse 28

Ezekiel 27:28

The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
Ezekiel 27:28, King James Version

Ezekiel 27:28 in other translations

BSBThe countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.
WEBAt the sound of the cry of your pilots, the pasture lands will shake.
ASVAt the sound of the cry of thy pilots the suburbs shall shake.
YLTAt the voice of the cry of thy pilots shake do the suburbs.
DARBYThe open places shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
BBEAt the sound of the cry of your ships' guides, the boards of the ship will be shaking.
WebsterThe suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

What does Ezekiel 27:28 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
28. The suburbs--the buildings of Tyre on the adjoining continent.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 28 The cry of thy pilots - When the ship was dashed against the rocks by the violence of the winds and the waves, and all hope of life was taken away, then a universal cry was set up by all on board. I have heard this cry, and nothing more dismal can be imagined, when the ship by a violent tempest is driving among rocks on a lee shore. Then "All lost! cut away the boat!" is more dreadful than the cry of fire at midnight.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 27:26-36

The most mighty and magnificent kingdoms and states, sooner or later, come down. Those who make creatures their confidence, and rest their hopes upon them, will fall with them: happy are those who have the God of Jacob for their Help, and whose hope is in the Lord their God, who lives for ever. Those who engage in trade should learn to conduct their business according to God's word. Those who possess wealth should…

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Ezekiel 27:28 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לְק֖וֹלle.Kolto [the] sound ofH6963
זַעֲקַ֣תza.'a.Kat[the] outcry ofH2201
חֹבְלָ֑יִךְchoe.La.yikhsailors yourH2259
יִרְעֲשׁ֖וּyir.'a.Shuthey will quakeH7493
מִגְרֹשֽׁוֹת\׃mig.ro.ShotpasturelandsH4054

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 27:28

  • Ezekiel 26:10

    By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

  • Nahum 2:3

    The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

  • Ezekiel 26:15-18

    Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee. And 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! Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.

  • Exodus 15:14

    The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.

  • Ezekiel 31:16

    I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

  • Ezekiel 27:35

    All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
suburbs. or waves. shake.
35; 26:10,15-18; 31:16; Ex 15:14; Na 2:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Ezekiel 27:27

    Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

  • Ezekiel 27:28

    The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

  • Ezekiel 27:29

    And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;

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Ezekiel 27:28 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Al estrépito de las voces de tus marineros temblarán los arrabales.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Les lieux ouverts trembleront au bruit du cri de tes pilotes.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Von dem Getöse des Geschreies deiner Steuermänner werden die Gefilde erbeben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		a sonitu clamoris gubernatorum tuorum conturbabuntur classes.