Ezekiel 27:30

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

And make loud lament over thee, with their voice, And make biter outcry,- And shall lift up dust on their heads, In ashes, shall roll themselves;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Because of you, they raise their voicesand cry out bitterly.They throw dust on their heads;they roll in ashes.

Hebrew Names Version
and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

King James Version
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

English Standard Version
and shout aloud over you and cry out bitterly. They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;

New American Standard Bible
And they will make their voice heard over you And cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads, They will wallow in ashes.

New Century Version
They cry loudly about you; they cry very much. They throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes to show they are sad.

Amplified Bible
And they will make their voice heard [as they wail loudly] over you And they will cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads; They will wallow in ashes.

World English Bible
and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

Geneva Bible (1587)
And shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shal cry bitterly, and shal cast dust vpon their heads, & wallow theselues in the ashes.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And they will make their voice heard over you And will cry bitterly. They will cast dust on their heads, They will wallow in ashes.

Legacy Standard Bible
And they will make their voice heard over youAnd will cry bitterly.They will cast dust on their heads;They will wallow in ashes.

Berean Standard Bible
They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

Contemporary English Version
mourning for you. They show their sorrow by putting dust on their heads and rolling in ashes;

Complete Jewish Bible
mourning aloud at your fate, crying bitterly, throwing dust on their heads, rolling in the ashes,

Darby Translation
and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly; and they shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in ashes.

Easy-to-Read Version
They will be very sad about you. They will cry, throw dust on their heads, and roll in ashes.

George Lamsa Translation
And they shall lament over you a great and bitter lamentation and shall cast dust upon their heads and shall wallow in ashes:

Good News Translation
They all mourn bitterly for you, Throwing dust on their heads and rolling in ashes.

Lexham English Bible
and they will lament over you with their voice, and they will cry out bitterly, and they will throw dust on their heads, and they will roll in the dust.

Literal Translation
and will make heard their voice against you, and will cry bitterly, and will cause dust to go up on their heads; they will wallow in the ashes.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They shal lift vp their voyce because off the, and make a lamentable crye. They shall cast dust vpon their heades, ad lye downe in the asshes.

American Standard Version
and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

Bible in Basic English
And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall roll themselves in the ashes;

King James Version (1611)
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall crie bitterly, and shall cast vp dust vpon their heads, they shall wallow themselues in the ashes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shall crye bitterly, and shall cast dust vpon their heades, and wallowe in the asshes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.

English Revised Version
and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and schulen yelle on thee with greet vois. And thei shulen cry bitterli, and thei schulen caste poudur on her heedis, and schulen be spreynt with aische.

Update Bible Version
and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

Webster's Bible Translation
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

New English Translation
They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;

New King James Version
They will make their voice heard because of you; They will cry bitterly and cast dust on their heads; They will roll about in ashes;

New Living Translation
They cry aloud over you and weep bitterly. They throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

New Life Bible
and cry in a loud voice of sorrow over you. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

New Revised Standard
and wail aloud over you, and cry bitterly. They throw dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall mourn over thee with a loud voice and shall cry bitterly: and they shall cast up dust upon their heads and shall be sprinkled with ashes.

Revised Standard Version
and wail aloud over you, and cry bitterly. They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;

Young's Literal Translation
And have sounded for thee with their voice, And cry bitterly, and cause dust to go up on their heads, In ashes they do roll themselves.

Contextual Overview

²⁶ Into mighty waters, have they brought thee, the rowers - even thee, - the east wind, hath broken thee In the heart of the seas: ²⁷ Thy wealth and thy wares, thy merchandise thy mariners, and thy sailors,-thy calkers and the barterers of thy merchandise and all thy men of war who are in thee and in all thy gathered host which is in thy midst Shall fall into the heart of the seas, In the day of thy fall. ²⁸ At the sound of the outcry of thy pots, the coasts shall quake: ²⁹ Then shall come down from their ships all that handle the oar, mariners, all the sailors of the sea - Upon the land, shall they take up their station; ³⁰ And make loud lament over thee, with their voice, And make biter outcry,- And shall lift up dust on their heads, In ashes, shall roll themselves; ³¹ And shall make bald for thee a baldness And gird them with sackcloth, - And shall weep for time in bitterness of soul. A biter lamentation; ³² And shall take up for thee in their Wailing: a dirge, And shall chant over thee,- Who is like Tyre? Like the Sent One in the midst of the sea? ³³ By the going forth of thy commodities out of the seas, Thou didst satisfy many peoples, By the multitude of thy wares and of thy merchandise, Thou didst enrich the kings of the earth. ³⁴ Now, thou art wrecked out of the seas In the depths of waters, - Thy merchandise and all thy gathered host In thy midst, have fallen. ³⁵ All the dwellers in the coastlands, Are astounded over thee,- And their king have been made to shudder a shuddering, To be troubled in countenance.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall cause: All that were on land, seeing this gallant ship perishing with all her men and goods, are here represented as setting up a dismal cry at the heart-rending sight. Ezekiel 27:31, Ezekiel 27:32, Ezekiel 26:17, Isaiah 23:1-6, Revelation 18:9-19

cast: 1 Samuel 4:12, 2 Samuel 1:2, Job 2:12, Lamentations 2:10, Revelation 18:19

they shall wallow: Esther 4:1-4, Job 2:8, Job 42:6, Jeremiah 6:26, Jeremiah 25:34, Jonah 3:6, Micah 1:10

Reciprocal: Joshua 7:6 - put dust Jeremiah 51:8 - howl Amos 8:10 - sackcloth Revelation 18:18 - What

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee,.... The rulers and governors of the city, for having taken a false step in provoking the enemy, and then holding out the siege no longer, as it was thought they might and would: or rather "over thee", or, "for thee" h; mourning over the city, and lamenting its sad case; see

Revelation 18:9:

and shall cry bitterly; with great weeping, howling, and shrieking:

and they shall cast dust upon their heads; a custom used in the eastern countries, in time of mourning and sorrow; see Revelation 18:19:

and they shall wallow themselves in ashes: or roll themselves in them, another custom used in mourning; see Jeremiah 6:26.

h עליך "de te", Junius Tremellius, Polanus, "super te" Piscator, Cocceius, Starckius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 27:30. Shall cry bitterly — All that were on the land, seeing this dreadful sight, a gallant ship perishing with all her men and goods, are represented as setting up a dismal cry at this heart-rending sight. But what must they have felt who were on board? Reader, wert thou ever shipwrecked? Wert thou ever in a hurricane on a lee rocky shore, where the helm had lost its power, and the sails were rendered useless? Dost thou remember that apparently last moment, when the ship drove up to the tremendous rocks, riding on the back of a mountainous surge? Then what was the universal cry? Hast thou ever heard any thing so terrific? so appalling? so death and judgment-like? No. It is impossible. These are the circumstances, this is the cry, that the prophet describes; disorder, confusion, dismay, and ruin. And this is a scene which the present writer has witnessed, himself a part of the wretched, when all hope of life was taken away, the yawning gulf opened, and nothing presented itself to support body or soul but that GOD who gave to both their being, and ultimately rescued him and his forlorn companions from one of the worst of deaths, by heaving the ship from the rocks by the agency of a tremendous receding wave. My soul hath these things still in remembrance, and therefore is humbled within me.