Ezekiel 28:8

Bishop's Bible

They shall cast thee downe to the pit, so that thou shalt dye the death of them that be slayne in the mids of the sea.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
They will bring you down to the grave. You will be like a sailor who died at sea.

New Living Translation
They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die in the heart of the sea, pierced with many wounds.

New American Standard Bible
'They will bring you down to the pit, And you will die the death of those who are killed In the heart of the seas.

New Century Version
They will kill you; you will die a terrible death like those who are killed at sea.

New English Translation
They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die violently in the heart of the seas.

Update Bible Version
They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of those that are slain, in the heart of the seas.

Webster's Bible Translation
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of [them that are] slain in the midst of the seas.

Amplified Bible
'They will bring you down to the pit [of destruction], And you will die the death of all those who die In the heart of the seas.

English Standard Version
They shall thrust you down into the pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.

World English Bible
They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei schulen sle, and drawe doun thee; and thou schalt die bi the deth of vncircumcidid men, in the herte of the see.

English Revised Version
They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain, in the heart of the seas.

Berean Standard Bible
They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will 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.

American Standard Version
They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the death of them that are slain, in the heart of the seas.

Bible in Basic English
They will send you down to the underworld, and your death will be the death of those who are put to the sword in the heart of the seas.

Complete Jewish Bible
They will lower you into the pit to die a violent death surrounded by the sea.

Darby Translation
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of those that are slain in the heart of the seas.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain, in the heart of the seas.

King James Version (1611)
They shall bring thee downe to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them, that are slaine in the middest of the seas.

New Life Bible
They will bring you down to the grave. You will die the death of those who are killed on the sea.

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
They shall cast thee downe to the pit, and thou shalt die the death of them, that are slaine in the middes of the sea.

George Lamsa Translation
They shall bring you down to ruin, and you shall die the death of those who are slain in the midst of the seas.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
To the pit, shall they take thee down,- And thou shalt die the deaths of one thrust through, In the heart of the sec.

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.

Revised Standard Version
They shall thrust you down into the Pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and they shall bring down thy beauty to destruction. And they shall bring thee down; and thou shalt die the death of the slain in the heart of the sea.

Good News Translation
They will kill you and send you to a watery grave.

Christian Standard Bible®
They will bring you down to the Pit,and you will die a violent deathin the heart of the sea.

Hebrew Names Version
They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.

King James Version
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

Lexham English Bible
They will thrust you down to the pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.

Literal Translation
They will cause you to go down to the Pit, and you shall die the deaths of the slain in the heart of the seas.

Young's Literal Translation
To destruction they bring thee down, Thou diest by the deaths of the wounded, in the heart of the seas.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They shal cast the downe to the pytte, so that thou shalt dye in the middest of the see,

New King James Version
They shall throw you down into the Pit, And you shall die the death of the slain In the midst of the seas.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'They will bring you down to the pit, And you will die the death of those who are slain In the heart of the seas.

Legacy Standard Bible
They will bring you down to the pit,And you will die the death of those who are slainIn the heart of the seas.

Contextual Overview

¹ The worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying: ² Thou sonne of man, tel the prince of Tyre, thus sayth the Lorde God: Because thou hast a proude heart, and hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seate of God, in the mids of the sea: wher as thou art but a man, and not God, though thou set thyne heart as the heart of God. ³ Beholde, thou thinkest thy selfe wyser then Daniel, that there is no secretes hyd from thee. ⁴ With thy wisdome and thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee great welthines, & gathered treasure of siluer & gold. ⁵ With thy great wysedome and occupying hast thou encreased thy power, and because of thy great riches thy heart is proude. ⁶ Therfore thus sayth the Lorde God, Forsomuch as thou hast set thyne heart as the heart of God: ⁷ Behold, I will bring straungers vpon thee, euen the terrible nations, these shal drawe out their swordes vpon the beautie of thy wysdome, and shall defile thy glorie. ⁸ They shall cast thee downe to the pit, so that thou shalt dye the death of them that be slayne in the mids of the sea. ⁹ Wilt thou say then before them that slay thee, I am a God? where as thou art but a man, and not God, in the handes of them that slay thee. ¹⁰ Die shalt thou the death of the vncircumcized in the handes of the straungers: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lorde God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall bring: Ezekiel 32:18-30, Job 17:16, Job 33:18, Job 33:28, Psalms 28:1, Psalms 30:9, Psalms 55:15, Psalms 88:4, Psalms 88:5, Proverbs 1:12, Proverbs 28:17, Isaiah 38:17

are slain: Ezekiel 27:26, Ezekiel 27:27, Ezekiel 27:34

Reciprocal: Isaiah 14:15 - thou Zechariah 9:4 - he will

Cross-References

Genesis 24:3
And I wyll make thee sweare by the Lorde God of heauen, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wyfe vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Chanaanites, amongest which I dwel:

Genesis 28:1
And so Isahac called Iacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and sayde vnto hym: See thou take not a wyfe of the daughters of Chanaan:

1 Samuel 8:6
But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, geue vs a king to iudge vs: And Samuel prayed vnto the lorde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They shall bring thee down to the pit,.... Or, "to corruption" k; to the grave, the pit of corruption and destruction; so antichrist shall go into perdition, into the bottomless pit from whence he came,

Revelation 17:8:

and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas; that die in a sea fight, whose carcasses are thrown overboard, and devoured by fishes.

k לשחת "ad corruptionem".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is here the embodiment of the community. Their glory is his glory, their pride his pride. The doom of Tyre could not be complete without denunciation of the prince of Tyre. Idolatrous nations and idolatrous kings were, in the eyes of the prophet, antagonists to the true God. In them was embodied the principle of evil opposing itself to the divine government of the world. Hence, some of the fathers saw upon the throne, not simply a hostile monarch, but “the Prince of this world, spiritual wickedness (or wicked spirits) in high places.” Whenever evil in any way domineers over good, there is a “prince of Tyrus,” against whom God utters His voice. The “mystery of iniquity is ever working, and in that working we recognize the power of Satan whom God condemns and will destroy.

Ezekiel 28:2

Thou hast said, I am a god - Compare Ezekiel 29:3; Daniel 4:30; Acts 12:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

I sit in the seat of God - Words denoting the speaker’s pride; but the situation of the island-city, full of beauty, in the midst of the blue water of the Mediterranean, gives force to the expression. Compare the words describing the lot of Tyre as having been in Eden Ezekiel 28:13.

Thou art a man - Rather, thou art man.

Ezekiel 28:3

Thou art wiser than Daniel - The passage is one of strong irony. Compare Ezekiel 14:14; Daniel 6:3.

Ezekiel 28:9

But thou shalt be a man - Rather, yet art thou man.

Ezekiel 28:10

The uncircumcised - The pagan idolaters as opposed to the covenant-people.

The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is here the embodiment of the community. Their glory is his glory, their pride his pride. The doom of Tyre could not be complete without denunciation of the prince of Tyre. Idolatrous nations and idolatrous kings were, in the eyes of the prophet, antagonists to the true God. In them was embodied the principle of evil opposing itself to the divine government of the world. Hence, some of the fathers saw upon the throne, not simply a hostile monarch, but “the Prince of this world, spiritual wickedness (or wicked spirits) in high places.” Whenever evil in any way domineers over good, there is a “prince of Tyrus,” against whom God utters His voice. The “mystery of iniquity is ever working, and in that working we recognize the power of Satan whom God condemns and will destroy.

Ezekiel 28:2

Thou hast said, I am a god - Compare Ezekiel 29:3; Daniel 4:30; Acts 12:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

I sit in the seat of God - Words denoting the speaker’s pride; but the situation of the island-city, full of beauty, in the midst of the blue water of the Mediterranean, gives force to the expression. Compare the words describing the lot of Tyre as having been in Eden Ezekiel 28:13.

Thou art a man - Rather, thou art man.

Ezekiel 28:3

Thou art wiser than Daniel - The passage is one of strong irony. Compare Ezekiel 14:14; Daniel 6:3.

Ezekiel 28:9

But thou shalt be a man - Rather, yet art thou man.

Ezekiel 28:10

The uncircumcised - The pagan idolaters as opposed to the covenant-people.