Ezekiel 28 · Verse 8

Ezekiel 28:8

They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
Ezekiel 28:8, King James Version

Ezekiel 28:8 in other translations

BSBThey will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.
WEBThey will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.
ASVThey shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the death of them that are slain, in the heart of the seas.
YLTTo destruction they bring thee down, Thou diest by the deaths of the wounded, in the heart of the seas.
DARBYThey shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of those that are slain in the heart of the seas.
BBEThey will send you down to the underworld, and your death will be the death of those who are put to the sword in the heart of the seas.
WebsterThey shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

What does Ezekiel 28:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. the pit--that is, the bottom of the sea; the image being that of one conquered in a sea-fight. the deaths--plural, as various kinds of deaths are meant (Jr 16:4). of them ... slain--literally, "pierced through." Such deaths as those pierced with many wounds die.

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 28:1-19

The sentence against the prince or king of Tyre. (Ezek 28:1-19) The fall of Zidon. (Ezek 28:20-23) The restoration of Israel. (Ezek 28:24-26) Verses 1-19 Ethbaal, or Ithobal, was the prince or king of Tyre; and being lifted up with excessive pride, he claimed Divine honours. Pride is peculiarly the sin of our fallen nature. Nor can any wisdom, except that which the Lord gives, lead to happiness in this world or in…

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Ezekiel 28:8 in the original Hebrew

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לַשַּׁ֖חַתla.Sha.chatto the pitH7845
יֽוֹרִד֑וּךָyo.ri.Du.khathey will bring down youH3381
וָמַ֛תָּהva.Ma.tahand you will dieH4191
מְמוֹתֵ֥יme.mo.Tei[the] death<s> ofH4463
חָלָ֖לcha.Lal[the] slainH2491
בְּלֵ֥בbe.Levin [the] heart ofH3820
יַמִּֽים\׃ya.Mim[the] seasH3220

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

Cross references for Ezekiel 28:8

  • Ezekiel 27:34

    In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.

  • Ezekiel 27:26-27

    Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. 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.

  • Job 33:28

    He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

  • Ezekiel 32:18-30

    Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. …

  • Job 33:18

    He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

  • Psalms 28:1

    A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

  • Psalms 55:15

    Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

  • Psalms 88:4-5

    I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

  • Proverbs 28:17

    A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

  • Proverbs 1:12

    Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

  • Job 17:16

    They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

  • Isaiah 38:17

    Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

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shall bring.
32:18-30; Job 17:16; 33:18,28; Ps 28:1; 30:9; 55:15; 88:4,5; Pr 1:12
Pr 28:17; Isa 38:17
are slain.
27:26,27,34

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Context

  • Ezekiel 28:7

    Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

  • Ezekiel 28:8

    They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

  • Ezekiel 28:9

    Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.

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Ezekiel 28:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
A la huesa te harán descender, y morirás de las muertes de los que mueren en medio de los mares.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
ils te feront descendre dans la fosse, et tu mourras de la mort de ceux qui sont tués au cœur des mers.
German
Elberfelder 1871
In die Grube werden sie dich hinabstürzen, und du wirst des Todes eines Erschlagenen sterben im Herzen der Meere.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Interficient, et detrahent te: et morieris in interitu occisorum in corde maris.