Teks -- Ezekiel 26:21 (NET)

26:21 I will bring terrors on you, and you will be no more! Though you are sought after, you will never be found again, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Eze 26:21 - A terror

To all that hear of thee.

JFB: Eze 26:15-21

The impression which the overthrow of Tyre produced on other maritime nations and upon her own colonies, for example, Utica, Carthage, and Tartessus or Tarshish in Spain.

JFB: Eze 26:15-21 - isles

Maritime lands. Even mighty Carthage used to send a yearly offering to the temple of Hercules at Tyre: and the mother city gave high priests to her colonies. Hence the consternation at her fall felt in the widely scattered dependencies with which she was so closely connected by the ties of religion, as well as commercial intercourse.

JFB: Eze 26:15-21 - shake

Metaphorically: "be agitated" (Jer 49:21).

JFB: Eze 26:21 - terror

An example of judgment calculated to terrify all evildoers.

JFB: Eze 26:21 - thou shall be no more

Not that there was to be no more a Tyre, but she was no more to be the Tyre that once was: her glory and name were to be no more. As, to Old Tyre, the prophecy was literally fulfilled, not a vestige of it being left.

Clarke: Eze 26:21 - Yet shalt thou never be found again

Yet shalt thou never be found again - This is literally true; there is not the smallest vestige of the ancient Tyre, that which was erected on the main land. Even the ground seems to have been washed away; and the new Tyre is in nearly a similar state. I think this prophecy must be extended to the whole duration of Tyre. If it now be found to be in the state here described, it is sufficient to show the truth of the prophecy. And now it is found precisely in the state which the above prophetic declarations, taken according to the letter, point out! No word of God can ever fall to the ground

Notwithstanding the former destructions, Tyre was a place of some consequence in the time of St. Paul. There was a Church there, (see Act 21:3, Act 21:4, etc.), which afterwards became famous. Calmet observes, it afforded a great number of martyrs for the Christian Church.

TSK: Eze 26:21 - a terror // though

a terror : Heb. terrors, Eze 26:15, Eze 26:16, Eze 27:36, Eze 28:19

though : Eze 26:14; Psa 37:36; Jer 51:64; Rev 18:21

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Eze 26:21 - A terror // Thou shalt be no more

A terror or consumption; I will utterly consume thee; with more than one kind of destruction will I destroy thee, and make thee thereby a terror to all that hear the bruit of thee.

Thou shalt be no more: see Eze 26:14 . If any will be so curious as to inquire, if they come to seek out the footsteps of this ancient Tyre, they shall lose their labour, no signs of it On the rock where once it stood. Rich, populous, potent, wise, renowned Tyre, as once thou wast, shalt never more be found; and, alas, that which is now on the continent is not fit to bear its name, much less to be counted the same city.

Haydock: Eze 26:21 - For ever

For ever: for a long time, (Theodoret) not at all in thy ancient glory. (Haydock) ---

The city subsisted after the days of Nabuchodonosor and of Alexander [the Great], (Calmet) ver. 14. ---

But the ancient city was reduced to a mere nothing. (Haydock)

Gill: Eze 26:21 - I will make thee a terror // and thou shall be no more // though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord God

I will make thee a terror,.... To all the isles round about, who shall shake and tremble at the ruin of Tyre, as before observed; or to herself, being brought into a most terrible and distressed condition:

and thou shall be no more: in the same place and situation, in the same happy state and condition:

though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord God: this is true of the antitype, Babylon, or antichrist, Rev 18:21.