Ezekiel 26:16-17

26:16 All the princes of the sea will vacate¹ 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.² 26:17 They will sing this lament over you:³

“‘How you have perished – you have vanished⁴ from the seas,

O renowned city, once mighty in the sea,

she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror!⁵

¹tn Heb “descend from.”

²tn Heb “and they will be astonished over you.”

³tn Heb “and they will lift up over you a lament and they will say to you.”

⁴tn Heb “O inhabitant.” The translation follows the LXX and understands a different Hebrew verb, meaning “cease,” behind the consonantal text. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:72, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:43.

⁵tn Heb “she and her inhabitants who placed their terror to all her inhabitants.” The relationship of the final prepositional phrase to what precedes is unclear. The preposition probably has a specifying function here, drawing attention to Tyre’s inhabitants as the source of the terror mentioned prior to this. In this case, one might paraphrase verse 17b: “she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror; yes, her inhabitants (were the source of this terror).”