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Ezekiel 26:18-20
New English Translation
Ezekiel 26:18-20
New English Translation
18 Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall;
the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’[a]
19 “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging[b] waters overwhelm you, 20 then I will bring you down to bygone people,[c] to be with those who descend to the Pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth among[d] the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand[e] in the land of the living.
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- Ezekiel 26:18 tn Heb “from your going out.”
- Ezekiel 26:19 tn Heb “many.”
- Ezekiel 26:20 tn Heb “to the people of antiquity.”
- Ezekiel 26:20 tn Heb “like.” The translation assumes an emendation of the preposition כ (kaf, “like”) to ב (bet, “in, among”).
- Ezekiel 26:20 tn Heb “and I will place beauty.” This reading makes little sense; many, following the lead of the LXX, emend the text to read: “nor will you stand,” with the negative particle before the preceding verb understood by ellipsis; see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:73. D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:47) offers another alternative, taking the apparent first person verb form as an archaic second feminine form and translating “nor radiate splendor.”
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