◄ Ezekiel 28:8 ►
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Good News Translation
They will kill you and send you to a watery grave.

New Revised Standard Version
They shall thrust you down to the Pit, and you shall die a violent death in the heart of the seas.

Contemporary English Version
Your enemies will brutally kill you, and the sea will be your only grave.

New American Bible
They shall thrust you down into the pit: you shall die a violent death in the heart of the sea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall kill thee, and bring thee down: and thou shalt die the death of them that are slain in the heart of the sea.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They shall kill thee, and bring thee down: and thou shalt die the death of them that are slain in the heart of the sea.

shall bring

Ezekiel 32:18-30 Son of man, sing a mournful song for the multitude of Egypt: and cast her down, both her, and the daughters of the mighty nations to the lowest part of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. . . .

Job 17:16 All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

Job 33:18,28 Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword. . . .

Psalm 28:1 A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 30:9 What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth?

Psalm 55:15 Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.

Psalm 88:4,5 I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, . . .

Proverbs 1:12 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.

Proverbs 28:17 A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.

Isaiah 38:17 Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

are slain

Ezekiel 27:26,27,34 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind hath broken thee in the heart of the sea. . . .

Context
Prophecy Against the King of Tyre
…7Therefore behold, I will bring upon thee strangers: the strongest of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy beauty. 8They shall kill thee, and bring thee down: and thou shalt die the death of them that are slain in the heart of the sea.9Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God; whereas thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay thee?…
Cross References
Psalm 55:23
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.

Isaiah 14:15
But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth of the pit.

Ezekiel 26:12
They shall waste thy riches, they shall make a spoil of thy merchandise: and they shall destroy thy walls, and pull down thy fine houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the waters.

Ezekiel 27:26
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind hath broken thee in the heart of the sea.

Ezekiel 27:27
Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy manifold furniture, thy mariners, and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and were chief over thy people: thy men of war also, that were in thee, with all thy multitude that is in the midst of thee: shall fall in the heart of the sea in the day of thy ruin.

Ezekiel 28:9
Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God; whereas thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay thee?

Ezekiel 28:7
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