Ezekiel 26:13

Translations

Modern

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.

Traditional

And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

Literal

And the roar of your songs I will make cease, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

Latin

Et quiescere faciam multitudinem canticorum tuorum: et sonitus cithararum tuarum non audietur amplius.

Original

Hebrew

English

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.

Notes

Ezekiel 26:12–14

In the end, events happened just as the prophet had described earlier in picture language (metaphor). Tyre would become a bare rock. It would no longer be a great and wealthy city.

Instead of being a busy center for ships and caravans from the east, it would become a quiet place. Local fishermen would spread their nets there to dry (Ezekiel 26:2). The great trading city would become empty and ruined.

The Jewish historian Josephus wrote that Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre for 13 years. However, Tyre was not completely destroyed at that time.

It was finally destroyed later by Alexander the Great in 332 BC.

Ezekiel 26:1–28:19

The message against Tyre, Israel’s northwestern neighbor, is more detailed than the short messages before it. It consists of three similar sections (Ezekiel 26:2–21; 27:1–36; and 28:1–19). Each section conveys the same idea: Tyre would meet a terrible end and cease to exist (Ezekiel 27:36).

Ezekiel 25:1–32:32

This section contains a series of messages of judgment against nearby nations. There are six shorter messages against Judah's immediate neighbors, arranged in a clockwise order, followed by a final message against Egypt (Ezekiel 30–32). Through experiencing God's judgment, the nations would recognize God's control over everything. The nations might be used to carry out God's judgment on his people, but they would not avoid judgment themselves.
One of the main purposes of these messages was to show that the negative part of God's promise to Abraham ("I will … curse those who curse you," Genesis 12:3) was still active. No one can harm God's people and avoid consequences, even when God's people are under his judgment.

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Messages Against the Nations

Events

Prophecies of Ezekielc. 593 BC

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Isaiah 23:7
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