The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
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The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
The merchants of the people hiss at you; you have become a horror, and you will be no more forever.”
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The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou shalt nevermore have any being.
The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou shalt never be any more.
The marchants among the people shall hisse at thee: thou shalt be a terrour, and neuer shalt be any more.
The merchants of people have hissed at thee: thou art brought to nothing, and thou shalt never be any more.
Merchants among the peoples have shrieked for thee, Wastes thou hast been, and thou art not -- to the age!'
Merchants among the peoples have shrieked for you, || You have been terrors, and you are not—for all time!”
The merchants of the people hiss at you; you have become a horror, and you will be no more forever.”
The merchants of the people hiss at you; you have become a horror, and you will be no more forever.”
The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou shalt never be any more.
The merchants among the peoples hiss at you. You have come to a terrible end, and you will be no more.”’”
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
The traders of the nations hiss at you in derision; disaster has brought you down and you're finished forever.’”
Those who do business among the peoples make sounds of surprise at you; you have become a thing of fear, you have come to an end for ever.
The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and never shalt be any more.'
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is בַּלָּה֣וֹת terror H1091 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
בַּלָּה֣וֹת terror H1091 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 20 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 9 Hebrew tokens and 13 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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סֹֽחֲרִים֙ בָּ֣עַמִּ֔ים שָׁרְק֖וּ עָלָ֑יִךְ בַּלָּה֣וֹת הָיִ֔ית וְאֵינֵ֖ךְ עַד עוֹלָֽם
The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ἔμπορος ἀπό ἔθνος συρίζω σύ ἀπώλεια γίγνομαι καί οὐκέτι εἰμί εἰς ὁ αἰών
Merchants from the nations have hissed at you; you are utterly destroyed, and shall not be any more for ever.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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תַּגָרִין בְּעַמְמַיָא צְדִיאוּ עָלַיִךְ כִּדְלָא הֲוֵית אֶתְּנִינִיךְ וְכֵן תְּהֵין עַד עַלְמָא:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ballâhâh (“terror”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 27:36 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.