26Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
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Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
For 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;
But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-36)We have seen Tyre flourishing; here we have Tyre falling, and great is the fall of it, so much the greater for its having made such a figure in the world. Note, The most mighty and magnificent kingdoms and states, sooner or later, have their day to come down. They have their period; and, when they are in their zenith, they will begin to decline. But the destruction of Tyre was sudden. Her sun went…
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