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Ezekiel
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In the eleventh year, in the first of the month, the LORD’s word came to me, saying, See also: Ezekiel 20:1Ezekiel 1:2Ezekiel 8:1“Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples has been returned to me. I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste;’ See also: Isaiah 23:1-18Ezekiel 36:2Jeremiah 25:22therefore the Lord GOD says, ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up. See also: Jeremiah 51:42Isaiah 5:30Micah 4:11They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. See also: Amos 1:10Isaiah 23:11Ezekiel 26:9She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord GOD. ‘She will become plunder for the nations. See also: Ezekiel 29:19Ezekiel 25:7Ezekiel 26:19Her daughters who are in the field will be slain with the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’ See also: Ezekiel 16:46Ezekiel 26:8Ezekiel 25:11“For the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, with chariots, with horsemen, and an army with many people. See also: Ezra 7:12Daniel 2:37Ezekiel 23:24He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will make forts against you, cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you. See also: Ezekiel 21:22Jeremiah 52:4Jeremiah 6:6He will set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. See also: 2 Chronicles 26:15By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter into a city which is broken open. See also: Ezekiel 27:28Jeremiah 47:3Ezekiel 26:15He will tread down all your streets with the hoofs of his horses. He will kill your people with the sword. The pillars of your strength will go down to the ground. See also: Isaiah 5:28Isaiah 26:5Habakkuk 1:8They will make a plunder of your riches and make a prey of your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. They will lay your stones, your timber, and your dust in the middle of the waters. See also: Isaiah 23:82 Chronicles 32:27Amos 5:11I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t be heard any more. See also: Jeremiah 7:34Isaiah 23:16Jeremiah 16:9I will make you a bare rock. You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more; for I the LORD have spoken it,’ says the Lord GOD. See also: Malachi 1:4Job 12:14Numbers 23:19“The Lord GOD says to Tyre: ‘Won’t the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made within you? See also: Ezekiel 27:35Jeremiah 49:21Ezekiel 26:18Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you. See also: Ezekiel 32:10Hosea 11:10Jonah 3:6They will take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, “How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!” See also: Isaiah 14:12Ezekiel 19:12 Samuel 1:25-27Now the islands will tremble in the day of your fall. Yes, the islands that are in the sea will be dismayed at your departure.’ See also: Isaiah 23:5-7Ezekiel 26:15Isaiah 41:5“For the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep on you, and the great waters cover you, See also: Isaiah 8:7-8Ezekiel 26:3Daniel 11:40then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living. See also: Psalms 27:13Luke 10:15Ezekiel 28:25-26I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord GOD.” See also: Ezekiel 27:36Revelation 18:21Ezekiel 28:19
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)17 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Ezekiel 26:1
Ver. 1. Year of the prophet's captivity. H. --- He still dates from the transmigration of Joachin.
C. i. &c. W. --- Some think he speaks of the first, fourth, or fifth month. Tyre was not besieged till after the ninth day of the fourth month, when Jerusalem was taken; nor could she express her joy for that event before, unless God allude to her dispositions, &c. C. xxv. 1. C.
↑ 1Ezekiel 26:2
Ver. 2. Gates: places of resort and commerce. The Jews came to Jerusalem frequently from all parts, which increased her beauty and trade. New Tyre expects that more will come to her.
↑ 2Ezekiel 26:3
Ver. 3. Up. Nabuchodonosor besieged the city for thirteen years. The profane historians read by S. Jerom took no notice of this; but Josephus quotes several. An. x. 11. and c. Ap. i. C.
↑ 3Ezekiel 26:4
Ver. 4. Dust. She shall be demolished, and the rubbish thrown into the sea, to make a road by which New Tyre in the island might be attacked. v. 12. H.
↑ 4Ezekiel 26:5
Ver. 5. Sea. S. Jerom explains this of New Tyre; Marsham of the Old. To reconcile the different texts, we only need to suppose that both cities were connected by a road thrown up in the sea by Hiram, and repaired by Nabuchodonosor with great labour, (C. xxix. 18.) after it had been destroyed by the inhabitants of New Tyre, when they saw the old city on the continent fall a prey.
S. Jer. C.
↑ 5Ezekiel 26:7
Ver. 7. Kings: Nabuchodonosor (4 K. xxv. 28.) or Alexander, who took Tyre. M.
↑ 7Ezekiel 26:8
Ver. 8. Daughters. Many towns were subject to Tyre: almost all Phœnicia acknowledged her dominion, as well as (C.) the seas to which her fleets went.
v. 15. Selden. Mare i. 6. Curt. iv. ---
These smaller cities shall fall, and the town shall be of no service except to dry nets. W.
↑ 8Ezekiel 26:9
Ver. 9. Engines. Lit. "vine." H. --- A covert was thus made for the soldiers, (Veget. iv. 15.) when they approached the walls. M.
↑ 9Ezekiel 26:10
Ver. 10. Destroyed. Old Tyre was taken by storm. It is doubtful whether it was pillaged. C.
xxix. 18. C.
↑ 10Ezekiel 26:11
Ver. 11. Statues. The citizens chained the golden statue of Apollo to the altar of Hercules, for fear of its leaving them, when Alexander attacked the town. Curt.
iv. --- Hiram placed a pillar of gold in the temple of Hercules. Jos. C. Ap. i. ---
Herodotus (ii. 44.) saw another also of emerald stone, ( smaragdon) which illuminated the temple in the night. On such the Tyrian might depend; though some render, "the substance or guard of thy strength," denoting the soldiers (C.) and towers. H. --- The gods were treated like the people, and their precious ornaments plundered.
↑ 11Ezekiel 26:14
Ver. 14. More, for seventy years. Is. xxiii. 15. The people returned at the same time as the Jews.
A. 3468. Soon after, Zacharias (C. ix.) speaks of Tyre as then subsisting. It was very strong in Alexander's time, (who took it with difficulty, as Antigonus did eighteen years later) and had a very extensive commerce when S. Jerom wrote. But all this must be understood of New Tyre.
The old city never regained much splendour. C. --- It is still in ruins. A modern traveller was struck with the completion of this prophecy, beholding a few miserable fishermen drying their nets on the spot!
↑ 14Ezekiel 26:16
Ver. 16. Sea: colonies, or tributary to Tyre. v. 8. H. --- Leptis, Utica, Carthage,and Cadiz, were founded by Tyrians. Pliny v. 19. --- Some pretend that these cities were attacked by the conquerors, for manifesting their grief. See Jos. Ant. x. Pineda, &c. --- But we shall not here follow conjectures. ---
Astonishment. Heb. "troubles," or mourning. C.
↑ 16Ezekiel 26:17
Ver. 17. Dwellest in. Heb. "of the seas." Prot. "seafaring men," (H.) being near the sea, or thence deriving thy riches.
↑ 17Ezekiel 26:18
Ver. 18. Because. Heb. "at thy departure." C. --- Sept. "into captivity." S. Jer.
↑ 18Ezekiel 26:19
Ver. 19. Waters; great armies, (v. 3.) or when thou art in the regions below. Job xxvi. 5. C. ---
Tyre was humbled for her pride, but restored after seventy years. Is. xxiii. Our Saviour retired into those parts. Mat. xv. 21. W.
↑ 19Ezekiel 26:20
Ver. 20. Everlasting: in the grave, till the day of judgment. Ps. xlviii. 12. Wisd.
xii. 5. ---
Living, assigned to Israel, (C. xxxii. 24. C.) where holy people adore the true God, and shall rise to life eternal. M.
↑ 20Ezekiel 26:21
Ver. 21. For ever: for a long time, (Theod.) not at all in thy ancient glory. H. ---
The city subsisted after the days of Nabuchodonosor and of Alexander. C. v.
14. --- But the ancient city was reduced to a mere nothing. H.
↑ 21License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses