Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 27:35
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in [their] countenance.
The news of Tyres ruin shall reach to distant isles, to merchant cities who trade with her. These in their selfish love of gain shall rejoice over her who was once paramount over them, hissing out against her curses and scorn.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
The isles; strictly and in a larger sense the seacoasts.
Astonished; wondering it ever should be effected that Tyre should fall.
Sore afraid: knowing how they are much less able to resist and defend themselves, and not knowing where that mighty conqueror would next try his arms and fortune.
They shall be troubled; shall not be able to conceal the discomposure of their mind; but in their countenance a trouble made up of grief, fear, and indignation, grief for their friends, fear for themselves, against that cruelty and inhumanity which, without respect to any thing dear to mankind, ruined the glory of the world, destroyed what could not be repaired by all the riches, and wisdom, and bounty of the Babylonish kingdom.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
35. islesseacoasts.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee,…. Both near and afar off; and not only the inhabitants of the isles, properly so called, but all that dwelt on the continent by the seaside; who would all be amazed when they heard of the ruin of Tyro, which they thought inexpugnable, by reason of its natural and artificial strength:
and their kings shall be sore afraid; that it will be their turn next; and as well knowing that they were less able to contend with so mighty a monarch as the king of Babylon, or Alexander the great, than Tyre was; see Re 18:9:
they shall be troubled in their countenance; their inward passions of grief and fear shall be seen in their countenances; which will wax pale, be dejected, distorted, and furrowed.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
35. Isles Rather, as usual, coast.
“All the inhabitants of the coastlands, are appalled at you,
And their kings are horribly afraid, their countenance is troubled,
The merchants among the people hiss at you, you have become terrors ( a dreadful warning to men),
And you will be no more for ever.”
Their doom will shake the world. They will be for ever a dreadful warning to men and from it there is no escape. They will be a byword forever. The hissing of the merchants indicates not contempt but appalled awareness.
Eze 27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in [their] countenance.
Ver. 35. They shall be troubled in their countenance, ] i.e., Appalled and dispirited.
the inhabitants: Eze 26:15-18, Isa 23:6
their kings: Eze 28:17-19, Eze 32:10, Rev 18:9, Rev 18:10
Reciprocal: Isa 23:11 – stretched Jer 51:41 – an astonishment Eze 26:16 – be astonished Eze 27:28 – shake Eze 28:19 – they Eze 30:9 – great
Eze 27:35. Isles means “habitable spots,” and the people in those places will be overwhelmed at the downfall of so great a city as Tyrus, They shall be troubled will be natural, for if so powerful a city as Tyrus can be thus brought to ruin, what might be the fate of other cities less strong?
Tyre’s trading partners would stand appalled at her, and their kings would fear for the prosperity of their own kingdoms. Other merchants would whistle in amazement at her unbelievable collapse (cf. 1Ki 9:8; Rev 18:15-19). Tyre herself would quake with terror and would pass into oblivion.
"The record of Tyre has a peculiar relevance for our day, for those areas in which she excelled and was the envy of the entire ancient world are precisely the fields in which every modern nation seeks superiority. But Tyre has a message for our age, and it is that riches without God are unable to satisfy the heart of man and often keep many from dependence upon God. Has not this spirit invaded the church, and does it not pervade the lives of too many Christians?" [Note: Feinberg, p. 157.]
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)