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Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
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The Shipwreck Metaphor
Commentators explain that this verse uses the metaphor of a magnificent ship to represent the city-state of Tyre. The city's own leaders are the 'rowers' who, through their prideful decisions, have steered their nation into 'great waters'—a situation of immense danger and distress, specifically the conflict with Babylon.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The east wind—Compare the marginal reference.
19th Century
Anglican
Your rowers. —As the chief means of propelling vessels when the art of sailing was imperfectly understood. The figure of the ship …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your rowers have brought you into great waters
Here the city of Tyre is compared to a vessel at sea, with great pr…
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