19All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
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I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, …
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, …
He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-19)As after the prediction of the ruin of Tyre (Ezek. 26:1-21) followed a pathetic lamentation for it (Ezek. 27:1-36), so after the ruin of the king of Tyre is foretold it is bewailed. I. This is commonly understood of the prince who then reigned over Tyre, spoken to, Ezek. 28:2. His name was Ethbaal , or Ithobalus , as Diodorus Siculus calls him that was king of Tyre when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed it…
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