Ezekiel 27:30

Bishop's Bible

And they shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shall crye bitterly, and shall cast dust vpon their heades, and wallowe in the asshes.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
They will be very sad about you. They will cry, throw dust on their heads, and roll in ashes.

New Living Translation
They cry aloud over you and weep bitterly. They throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

New American Standard Bible
And they will make their voice heard over you And cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads, They will wallow in ashes.

New Century Version
They cry loudly about you; they cry very much. They throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes to show they are sad.

New English Translation
They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;

Update Bible Version
and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

Webster's Bible Translation
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

Amplified Bible
And they will make their voice heard [as they wail loudly] over you And they will cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads; They will wallow in ashes.

English Standard Version
and shout aloud over you and cry out bitterly. They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;

World English Bible
and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and schulen yelle on thee with greet vois. And thei shulen cry bitterli, and thei schulen caste poudur on her heedis, and schulen be spreynt with aische.

English Revised Version
and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

Berean Standard Bible
They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

Contemporary English Version
mourning for you. They show their sorrow by putting dust on their heads and rolling in ashes;

American Standard Version
and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

Bible in Basic English
And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

Complete Jewish Bible
mourning aloud at your fate, crying bitterly, throwing dust on their heads, rolling in the ashes,

Darby Translation
and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly; and they shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in ashes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall roll themselves in the ashes;

King James Version (1611)
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall crie bitterly, and shall cast vp dust vpon their heads, they shall wallow themselues in the ashes.

New Life Bible
and cry in a loud voice of sorrow over you. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

New Revised Standard
and wail aloud over you, and cry bitterly. They throw dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shal cry bitterly, and shal cast dust vpon their heads, & wallow theselues in the ashes.

George Lamsa Translation
And they shall lament over you a great and bitter lamentation and shall cast dust upon their heads and shall wallow in ashes:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And make loud lament over thee, with their voice, And make biter outcry,- And shall lift up dust on their heads, In ashes, shall roll themselves;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall mourn over thee with a loud voice and shall cry bitterly: and they shall cast up dust upon their heads and shall be sprinkled with ashes.

Revised Standard Version
and wail aloud over you, and cry bitterly. They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.

Good News Translation
They all mourn bitterly for you, Throwing dust on their heads and rolling in ashes.

Christian Standard Bible®
Because of you, they raise their voicesand cry out bitterly.They throw dust on their heads;they roll in ashes.

Hebrew Names Version
and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

King James Version
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

Lexham English Bible
and they will lament over you with their voice, and they will cry out bitterly, and they will throw dust on their heads, and they will roll in the dust.

Literal Translation
and will make heard their voice against you, and will cry bitterly, and will cause dust to go up on their heads; they will wallow in the ashes.

Young's Literal Translation
And have sounded for thee with their voice, And cry bitterly, and cause dust to go up on their heads, In ashes they do roll themselves.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They shal lift vp their voyce because off the, and make a lamentable crye. They shall cast dust vpon their heades, ad lye downe in the asshes.

New King James Version
They will make their voice heard because of you; They will cry bitterly and cast dust on their heads; They will roll about in ashes;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And they will make their voice heard over you And will cry bitterly. They will cast dust on their heads, They will wallow in ashes.

Legacy Standard Bible
And they will make their voice heard over youAnd will cry bitterly.They will cast dust on their heads;They will wallow in ashes.

Contextual Overview

²⁶ Thy rowers haue brought thee into great waters, the east wind hath broken thee in the mids of the sea. ²⁷ Thy riches, and thy fayres, thy marchaundise, thy mariners, & shipmasters, thy calkars, and the occupiers of thy marchaundise, and al thy men of warre that are in thee, and all thy multitude that is in the mids of thee, shall fal in the mids of the sea, in the day of thy fall. ²⁸ The suburbes shal shake at the loude crie of thy shipmen. ²⁹ All that handle the ore, mariners, and all shipmaisters of the sea, shall come downe from their ships, and stand vpon the lande. ³⁰ And they shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shall crye bitterly, and shall cast dust vpon their heades, and wallowe in the asshes. ³¹ They shal make them selues bauld for thee, and girde them with sackcloth, & they shal weepe for thee, with sorowefull heart, and bitter mourning. ³² And they shall take vp a lamentation for thee in their mourning, and lament ouer thee, [what citie] is like Tyrus so destroyed in the mids of the sea? ³³ When thy wares went foorth of the seas, thou filledst many people: the kinges of the earth hast thou made riche, thorowe the multitude of thy riches and marchaundise. ³⁴ When thou shalt be broken by the seas in the deapthes of the waters, thy marchaundise & all thy multitude that was in the mids of thee, shall fall. ³⁵ All the inhabitauntes of the iles shalbe astonied at thee, and all their kinges shalbe sore afrayde, and troubled in their countenaunce.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall cause: All that were on land, seeing this gallant ship perishing with all her men and goods, are here represented as setting up a dismal cry at the heart-rending sight. Ezekiel 27:31, Ezekiel 27:32, Ezekiel 26:17, Isaiah 23:1-6, Revelation 18:9-19

cast: 1 Samuel 4:12, 2 Samuel 1:2, Job 2:12, Lamentations 2:10, Revelation 18:19

they shall wallow: Esther 4:1-4, Job 2:8, Job 42:6, Jeremiah 6:26, Jeremiah 25:34, Jonah 3:6, Micah 1:10

Reciprocal: Joshua 7:6 - put dust Jeremiah 51:8 - howl Amos 8:10 - sackcloth Revelation 18:18 - What

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee,.... The rulers and governors of the city, for having taken a false step in provoking the enemy, and then holding out the siege no longer, as it was thought they might and would: or rather "over thee", or, "for thee" h; mourning over the city, and lamenting its sad case; see

Revelation 18:9:

and shall cry bitterly; with great weeping, howling, and shrieking:

and they shall cast dust upon their heads; a custom used in the eastern countries, in time of mourning and sorrow; see Revelation 18:19:

and they shall wallow themselves in ashes: or roll themselves in them, another custom used in mourning; see Jeremiah 6:26.

h עליך "de te", Junius Tremellius, Polanus, "super te" Piscator, Cocceius, Starckius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 27:30. Shall cry bitterly — All that were on the land, seeing this dreadful sight, a gallant ship perishing with all her men and goods, are represented as setting up a dismal cry at this heart-rending sight. But what must they have felt who were on board? Reader, wert thou ever shipwrecked? Wert thou ever in a hurricane on a lee rocky shore, where the helm had lost its power, and the sails were rendered useless? Dost thou remember that apparently last moment, when the ship drove up to the tremendous rocks, riding on the back of a mountainous surge? Then what was the universal cry? Hast thou ever heard any thing so terrific? so appalling? so death and judgment-like? No. It is impossible. These are the circumstances, this is the cry, that the prophet describes; disorder, confusion, dismay, and ruin. And this is a scene which the present writer has witnessed, himself a part of the wretched, when all hope of life was taken away, the yawning gulf opened, and nothing presented itself to support body or soul but that GOD who gave to both their being, and ultimately rescued him and his forlorn companions from one of the worst of deaths, by heaving the ship from the rocks by the agency of a tremendous receding wave. My soul hath these things still in remembrance, and therefore is humbled within me.