When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
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Gill's Exposition
I will make thee a terror,.... To all the isles round about, who shall shake and tremble at the ruin of Tyre, as before observed; or to herself, being brought into a most terrible and distressed…
The effect of the fall of Tyre. Eze 26:16 Clothe themselves with trembling - Mourners change their bright robes for sad garments. Eze 26:17 Of seafaring men - literally, “from the seas,” i. e.,…
Adam Clarke
And I shall set glory in the land of the living - Judea so called, the land of the living God.
The utter ruin of Tyre is here represented in very strong and lively figures, which are exceedingly affecting.
1. See how high, how great, Tyre had been, how little likely ever to come to this. The…
Cambridge Bible
when I shall bring Rather in connexion with Eze 26:26: when I shall make thee a desolate city … then I shall bring thee down. The prophet regards Tyre's sinking beneath the waters as her entrance upon…
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