Ezekiel 27:25 "'The ships of Tarshish serve as carriers for your wares. You are filled with heavy cargo as you sail the sea.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"'The ships of Tarshish serve as carriers for your wares. You are filled with heavy cargo as you sail the sea.

English Standard Version
The ships of Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise. So you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas.

New American Standard Bible
"The ships of Tarshish were the carriers for your merchandise. And you were filled and were very glorious In the heart of the seas.

King James Bible
The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Ships of Tarshish were the carriers for your goods. So you became full and heavily loaded in the heart of the sea.

International Standard Version
Ocean-going fleets carried your merchandise." "How filled you were! How glorious you were, at home in the heart of the sea!

American Standard Version
The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise : and thou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea.

Darby Bible Translation
The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy traffic; and thou wast replenished, and highly honoured, in the heart of the seas.

Young's Literal Translation
Ships of Tarshish are thy double walls of thy merchandise, And thou art filled and honoured greatly, In the heart of the seas.

Cross References

Genesis 10:4
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Psalm 48:7
You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

Proverbs 31:14
She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar.

Isaiah 2:16
And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all pleasant pictures.

Isaiah 23:14
Howl, you ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

Ezekiel 27:24
These were your merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among your merchandise.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

27:1-25 Those who live at ease are to be lamented, if they are not prepared for trouble. Let none reckon themselves beautified, any further than they are sanctified. The account of the trade of Tyre intimates, that God's eye is upon men when employed in worldly business. Not only when at church, praying and hearing, but when in markets and fairs, buying and selling. In all our dealings we should keep a conscience void of offence. God, as the common Father of mankind, makes one country abound in one commodity, and another in another, serviceable to the necessity or to the comfort and ornament of human life. See what a blessing trade and merchandise are to mankind, when followed in the fear of God. Besides necessaries, an abundance of things are made valuable only by custom; yet God allows us to use them. But when riches increase, men are apt to set their hearts upon them, and forget the Lord, who gives power to get wealth.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

25. sing of thee—personification; thy great merchant ships were palpable proofs of thy greatness. Others translate from a different Hebrew root, "were thy (mercantile) travellers." Fairbairn translates, "Were thy walls." But the parallelism to "thou wast glorious" favors English Version, "sing of thee."