Ezekiel Chapter 28 verse 18 Holy Bible
By the multitude of thine iniquities, in the unrighteousness of thy traffic, thou hast profaned thy sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of thee; it hath devoured thee, and I have turned thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
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By all your sin, even by your evil trading, you have made your holy places unclean; so I will make a fire come out from you, it will make a meal of you, and I will make you as dust on the earth before the eyes of all who see you.
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By the multitude of thine iniquities, by the unrighteousness of thy traffic, thou hast profaned thy sanctuaries: and I have brought forth a fire out of the midst of thee -- it hath consumed thee; and I have brought thee to ashes upon the earth, in the sight of all them that behold thee.
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Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
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By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.
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From the abundance of thy iniquity, By the perversity of thy traffic, Thou hast polluted thy sanctuaries, And I bring forth fire from thy midst, It hath devoured thee, And I make thee become ashes on the earth, Before the eyes of all beholding thee.
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Defiled thy sanctuaries.--These are not to be understood so much of the actual temples of Tyre as of the ideal "holy mountain of God," in which the prophet has represented the prince of Tyre as "a covering cherub." Yet still, doubtless, even in the former sense, it was true that the Tyrians, like the Gentiles of whom St. Paul speaks in Romans 1:21, did not act up to the religious light they had, and violating their own consciences and sense of right, defiled even such representation of the true religion as still remained in their idolatrous worship. The main thought, however, is the former one, and it is in accordance with this that the fire is represented as going forth to consume the king. Many of the Hebrew manuscripts have sanctuary in the singular.By the iniquity of thy traffick.--Here, as so often in other cases, the sin is represented as consisting in the abuse of the very blessings which God had given, and this sin as leading directly to its own punishment. No fact is more striking in history, whether of Israel or of the heathen, than that the gifts of God, which should have been to their blessing and His glory, are perverted by the sinfulness of man: first to their own guilt, and then, in consequence, to their ruin.Ezekiel 28:20-26 constitute another distinct prophecy, of which Ezekiel 28:20-24 are occupied with the denunciation of judgment upon Zidon, and Ezekiel 28:25-26 with promises to Israel. There are several obvious reasons, besides that of making up the number of the nations to seven, why at least a word of prophecy should have been directed especially against Zidon, notwithstanding her forming a part of Ph?nicia and contributing to the mariners of Tyre (Ezekiel 27:8). In the first place, Zidon (situated about twenty-five miles north of Tyre) was the more ancient city from which Tyre had sprung, and always maintained her independence. Hence she might seem not to be exposed to the judgment of God upon Tyre, unless especially mentioned. Then also Zidon (rather than Tyre) had been peculiarly the source of corrupting idolatrous influences upon Israel. This had begun as early as the times of the Judges (Judges 10:6); it had been continued and increased in the days of Solomon (1Kings 11:33); it reached its consummation under the reign of Ahab, who married Jezebel, the daughter of the king of Zidon and high priest of Baal (1Kings 16:31), and who set up the worship of Baal as the state religion of Israel. That this influence was still powerful in Judah also in the days of Ezekiel is plain from the reference to the Thammuz worship in Ezekiel 8:14. . . . Parallel Commentaries ...HebrewBy the multitudeמֵרֹ֣ב (mê·rōḇ)Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular constructStrong's 7230: Multitude, abundance, greatnessof your iniquitiesעֲוֺנֶ֗יךָ (‘ă·wō·ne·ḵā)Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singularStrong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquityand the dishonestyבְּעֶ֙וֶל֙ (bə·‘e·wel)Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular constructStrong's 5766: Injustice, unrighteousnessof your tradingרְכֻלָּ֣תְךָ֔ (rə·ḵul·lā·ṯə·ḵā)Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singularStrong's 7404: Traffic, merchandiseyou have profanedחִלַּ֖לְתָּ (ḥil·lal·tā)Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine singularStrong's 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to playyour sanctuaries.מִקְדָּשֶׁ֑יךָ (miq·dā·še·ḵā)Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singularStrong's 4720: A consecrated thing, place, a palace, sanctuary, asylumSo I made fireאֵ֤שׁ (’êš)Noun - common singularStrong's 784: A firecomeוָֽאוֹצִא־ (wā·’ō·w·ṣi-)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singularStrong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proximfrom within you,מִתּֽוֹכְךָ֙ (mit·tō·wḵ·ḵā)Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singularStrong's 8432: A bisection, the centreand itהִ֣יא (hî)Pronoun - third person feminine singularStrong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, areconsumed you.אֲכָלַ֔תְךָ (’ă·ḵā·laṯ·ḵā)Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular | second person masculine singularStrong's 398: To eatI reducedוָאֶתֶּנְךָ֤ (wā·’et·ten·ḵā)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singularStrong's 5414: To give, put, setyou to ashesלְאֵ֙פֶר֙ (lə·’ê·p̄er)Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singularStrong's 665: Ashesonעַל־ (‘al-)PrepositionStrong's 5921: Above, over, upon, againstthe groundהָאָ֔רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)Article | Noun - feminine singularStrong's 776: Earth, landin the eyesלְעֵינֵ֖י (lə·‘ê·nê)Preposition-l | Noun - cdcStrong's 5869: An eye, a fountainof allכָּל־ (kāl-)Noun - masculine singular constructStrong's 3605: The whole, all, any, everywho saw you.רֹאֶֽיךָ׃ (rō·’e·ḵā)Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singularStrong's 7200: To seeJump to PreviousAshes Consumed Defiled Devour Devoured Earth Eyes Fire Forth Iniquities Iniquity Midst Multitude Profaned Sanctuaries Sight Trade Traffic Traffick Turned Unrighteousness
