Ezekiel 27:25 - Exposition

The verse beaus a new section, and glides back into the original metaphor of the ship, as in Ezekiel 27:4-9 . The ships of Tarshish are used generically for merchant-ships. The catalogue of the commerce ends with Ezekiel 27:24 , and the more poetic imagery reappears. It was, as centering in herself all that they brought to her that the merchant-city was very glorious in the midst of the waters. For sing of thee , read, the ships of Tarshish were thy caravans (Revised Version). The word has also the sense of "wall," as in Jeremiah 5:10 and Job 24:11 ; and this, describing the ships as the "wooden wails" of Tyre, gives a tenable sense here.