Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 26:5

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 27, 29 onwards) Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and tell them: Thus says the Lord God: Moreover, your fathers have blasphemed against me and have treated me with contempt, even as they spurned me. And I brought them into the land that I had lifted my hand to give them ((Vulgate adds: that la…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

5She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for repairing nets: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord: and it shall be a spoil for the nations.

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In context

3therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against thee, as the sea comes up with its waves.

4And they shall cast down the walls of Tyre, and shall cast down thy towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock.

— Ezekiel 26:5 —

6And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain with the sword, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

7For thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring up against thee, O Tyre, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the north: he is a king of kings, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and a concourse of very many nations.

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