Ezekiel 27:26 “Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind wi…”

Ezekiel 27:26

Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Your rowers have brought you into great waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Thy robbers haue brought thee into great waters: the East winde hath broken thee in the middes of the sea.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Into great waters have they brought thee, Those rowing thee, The east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.

Bible in Basic English

Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.

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Cross references

“rowers”

Isaiah 33:23

Isaiah 33:23 · BSB

Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.

“great”

Ezekiel 26:19 Revelation 17:15 Psalm 93:3 Psalm 93:4

Ezekiel 26:19 · BSB

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

Revelation 17:15 · BSB

Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

Psalm 93:3 · BSB

The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.

Psalm 93:4 · BSB

Above the roar of many waters— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.

“the east”

Psalm 48:7 Acts 27:14 Ezekiel 27:34 Acts 27:41

Psalm 48:7 · BSB

With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.

Acts 27:14 · BSB

But it was not long before a cyclone called the Northeaster swept down across the island.

Ezekiel 27:34 · BSB

Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.

Acts 27:41 · BSB

But the ship struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was being broken up by the pounding of the waves.

Also

Jeremiah 18:17

Jeremiah 18:17 · BSB

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

25The ships of Tarshish carried your merchandise. And you were filled with heavy cargo in the heart of the sea.

27Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.

Read Ezekiel 27