Ezekiel 27:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The ships of Tarshish were the transports for your merchandise.“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 2:16 : 16 for all the large ships, for all the impressive ships.
  • Isa 23:14 : 14 Wail, you large ships, for your fortress is destroyed!
  • Ps 48:7 : 7 With an east wind you shatter the large ships.
  • 1 Kgs 10:22 : 22 Along with Hiram’s fleet, the king had a fleet of large merchant ships that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet came into port with cargoes of gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
  • Isa 60:9 : 9 Indeed, the coastlands look eagerly for me, the large ships are in the lead, bringing your sons from far away, along with their silver and gold, to honor the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has bestowed honor on you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 87%

    32 As they wail they will lament over you, chanting:“Who was like Tyre, like a tower in the midst of the sea?”

    33 When your products went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.

    34 Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.

    35 All the inhabitants of the coastlands are shocked at you, and their kings are horribly afraid– their faces are troubled.

  • 86%

    12 “‘Tarshish was your trade partner because of your abundant wealth; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your products.

    13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your clients; they exchanged slaves and bronze items for your merchandise.

  • 85%

    26 Your rowers have brought you into surging waters. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

    27 Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains, your ship’s carpenters, your merchants, and all your fighting men within you, along with all your crew who are in you, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.

    28 At the sound of your captains’ cry the waves will surge;

    29 They will descend from their ships– all who handle the oar, the sailors and all the sea captains– they will stand on the land.

  • Ezek 27:15-24
    10 verses
    84%

    15 The Dedanites were your clients. Many coastlands were your customers; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.

    16 Edom was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your products.

    17 Judah and the land of Israel were your clients; they traded wheat from Minnith, millet, honey, olive oil, and balm for your merchandise.

    18 Damascus was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods and of all your wealth: wine from Helbon, white wool from Zahar,

    19 and casks of wine from Izal they exchanged for your products. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were among your merchandise.

    20 Dedan was your client in saddlecloths for riding.

    21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your trade partners; for lambs, rams, and goats they traded with you.

    22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.

    23 Haran, Kanneh, Eden, merchants from Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad were your clients.

    24 They traded with you choice garments, purple clothes and embroidered work, and multicolored carpets, bound and reinforced with cords; these were among your merchandise.

  • Ezek 27:3-10
    8 verses
    81%

    3 Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance of the sea, merchant to the peoples on many coasts,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘O Tyre, you have said,“I am perfectly beautiful.”

    4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

    5 They crafted all your planks out of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.

    6 They made your oars from oaks of Bashan; they made your deck with cypress wood from the coasts of Cyprus.

    7 Fine linen from Egypt, woven with patterns, was used for your sail to serve as your banner; blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah was used for your deck’s awning.

    8 The leaders of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were your captains.

    9 The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were within you, mending cracks; all the ships of the sea and their mariners were within you to trade for your merchandise.

    10 Men of Persia, Lud, and Put were in your army, men of war. They hung shield and helmet on you; they gave you your splendor.

  • 14 Wail, you large ships, for your fortress is destroyed!

  • 9 Indeed, the coastlands look eagerly for me, the large ships are in the lead, bringing your sons from far away, along with their silver and gold, to honor the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has bestowed honor on you.

  • 77%

    16 All the princes of the sea will vacate their thrones. They will remove their robes and strip off their embroidered clothes; they will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground; they will tremble continually and be shocked at what has happened to you.

    17 They will sing this lament over you:“‘How you have perished– you have vanished from the seas, O renowned city, once mighty in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror!

    18 Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’

  • 16 for all the large ships, for all the impressive ships.

  • Isa 23:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 The Lord Will Judge Tyre This is an oracle about Tyre: Wail, you large ships, for the port is too devastated to enter! From the land of Cyprus this news is announced to them.

    2 Lament, you residents of the coast, you merchants of Sidon who travel over the sea, whose agents sail over

  • 7 With an east wind you shatter the large ships.

  • 10 Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile; there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.

  • Isa 23:6-8
    3 verses
    75%

    6 Travel to Tarshish! Wail, you residents of the coast!

    7 Is this really your boisterous city whose origins are in the distant past, and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?

    8 Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?

  • 26 The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.

  • 5 Then you will look and smile, you will be excited and your heart will swell with pride. For the riches of distant lands will belong to you and the wealth of nations will come to you.

  • 5 By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth.

  • 22 Along with Hiram’s fleet, the king had a fleet of large merchant ships that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet came into port with cargoes of gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

  • 12 cargo such as gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all sorts of things made of citron wood, all sorts of objects made of ivory, all sorts of things made of expensive wood, bronze, iron and marble,

  • 23 Some traveled on the sea in ships, and carried cargo over the vast waters.

  • 21 The king had a fleet of large merchant ships manned by Huram’s men that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet came into port with cargoes of gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

  • 22 all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon; all the kings of the coastlands along the sea;

  • 17 because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!” And every ship’s captain, and all who sail along the coast– seamen, and all who make their living from the sea, stood a long way off