26 "'Your sailors row mightily, taking you into the high seas. Then a storm out of the east shatters your ship in the ocean deep. 27 Everything sinks - your rich goods and products, sailors and crew, ship's carpenters and soldiers, Sink to the bottom of the sea. Total shipwreck. 28 The cries of your sailors reverberate on shore. 29 Sailors everywhere abandon ship. Veteran seamen swim for dry land. 30 They cry out in grief, a choir of bitter lament over you. They smear their faces with ashes, 31 shave their heads, Wear rough burlap, wildly keening their loss. 32 They raise their funeral song: "Who on the high seas is like Tyre!" 33 "'As you crisscrossed the seas with your products, you satisfied many peoples. Your worldwide trade made earth's kings rich. 34 And now you're battered to bits by the waves, sunk to the bottom of the sea, And everything you've bought and sold has sunk to the bottom with you. 35 Everyone on shore looks on in terror. The hair of kings stands on end, their faces drawn and haggard! 36 The buyers and sellers of the world throw up their hands: This horror can't happen! Oh, this has happened!'"
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 27:26-36
Commentary on Ezekiel 27:26-36
(Read Ezekiel 27:26-36)
The most mighty and magnificent kingdoms and states, sooner or later, come down. Those who make creatures their confidence, and rest their hopes upon them, will fall with them: happy are those who have the God of Jacob for their Help, and whose hope is in the Lord their God, who lives for ever. Those who engage in trade should learn to conduct their business according to God's word. Those who possess wealth should remember they are the Lord's stewards, and should use his goods in doing good to all. Let us seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.