Ezekiel 26:10
New International Version
His horses will be so many that they will cover you with dust. Your walls will tremble at the noise of the warhorses, wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through.

New Living Translation
The hooves of his horses will choke the city with dust, and the noise of the charioteers and chariot wheels will shake your walls as they storm through your broken gates.

English Standard Version
His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached.

Berean Standard Bible
His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.

King James Bible
By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

New King James Version
Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, the wagons, and the chariots, when he enters your gates, as men enter a city that has been breached.

New American Standard Bible
Because of the multitude of his horses, the dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots when he enters your gates as warriors enter a city that is breached.

NASB 1995
“Because of the multitude of his horses, the dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of cavalry and wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached.

NASB 1977
“Because of the multitude of his horses, the dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of cavalry and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached.

Legacy Standard Bible
Because of the abundance of his horses, the fine dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of horsemen and wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached.

Amplified Bible
Because of the great number of his horses, their dust will cover you; your walls [O Tyre] will shake from the noise of the horsemen and the wagons and the chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached.

Christian Standard Bible
His horses will be so numerous that their dust will cover you. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
His horses will be so numerous that their dust will cover you. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.

American Standard Version
By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

Contemporary English Version
He will have so many horses that the dust they stir up will seem like a thick fog. And as his chariots and cavalry approach, even the walls will shake, especially when he proudly enters your ruined city.

English Revised Version
By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He will have so many horses that their dust will cover you. The noise from the war horses, wagon wheels, and chariots will shake your walls when he enters your gates. He will enter as people enter a conquered city.

Good News Translation
The clouds of dust raised by their horses will cover you. The noise of their horses pulling wagons and chariots will shake your walls as they pass through the gates of the ruined city.

International Standard Version
There will be so many horses that the dust raised by them will cover you completely. The walls of your city will tremble from the noise of Nebuchadnezzar's cavalry, wagons, and chariots when they enter through the gates of your city, as men enter a city that has been breached.

Majority Standard Bible
His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.

NET Bible
He will cover you with the dust kicked up by his many horses. Your walls will shake from the noise of the horsemen, wheels, and chariots when he enters your gates like those who invade through a city's broken walls.

New Heart English Bible
By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as men enter into a city in which is made a breach.

Webster's Bible Translation
By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city in which is made a breach.

World English Bible
By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter into a city which is broken open.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
From the abundance of his horses their dust cover you, "" From the noise of horseman, and wheel, and rider, "" Your walls shake, in his coming into your gates, "" As the coming into a city that has been broken-up.

Young's Literal Translation
From the abundance of his horses cover thee doth their dust, From the noise of horseman, and wheel, and rider, Shake do thy walls, in his coming in to thy gates, As the coming into a city broken-up.

Smith's Literal Translation
From the abundance of is horses, their dust will cover thee: from the voice of the horseman, and the wheel, and the chariot, thy walls shall shake, in his coming in to thy gates, as the enterings of a city rent asunder.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
By reason of the multitude of his horses, their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and wheels, and chariots, when they shall go in at thy gates, as by the entrance of a city that is destroyed.

Catholic Public Domain Version
He will cover you with the inundation of his horses and with their dust. Your walls will shake at the sound of horsemen and wheels and chariots, when they will have entered your gates, as if through the entrance of a city that has been broken open.

New American Bible
From the surging of his horses he will cover you with dust; from the noise of warhorses, wheels and chariots. Your walls will shake when he enters your gates, even as one enters a city that is breached.

New Revised Standard Version
His horses shall be so many that their dust shall cover you. At the noise of cavalry, wheels, and chariots your very walls shall shake, when he enters your gates like those entering a breached city.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust shall cover you; your walls shall shake at the noise of his horsemen and of the wheels and of the chariots, when he shall enter your gates as men enter into a city in which is made a breach.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
From the treading of his horses the dust shall cover you, and from the sound of his horsemen and of the wheels of his chariots your walls will be moved, and when he enters inside your gates as he who enters the breached city
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
By reason of the abundance of his horses Their dust shall cover thee; At the noise of the horsemen, And of the wheels, and of the chariots, Thy walls shall shake, When he shall enter into thy gates, As men enter into a city Wherein is made a breach.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
By reason of thy multitude of his horses their dust shall cover thee, and by reason of the sound of his horsemen and the wheels of his chariots thy walls shall be shaken, when he enters into thy gates, as one entering into a city from the plain.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
A Prophecy Against Tyre
9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes. 10His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots. 11The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.…

Cross References
Revelation 18:17-19
For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance / and cry out at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. “What city was ever like this great city?” they will exclaim. / Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.”

Isaiah 23:1-18
This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus. / Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea. / On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations. ...

Jeremiah 47:3
at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.

Nahum 2:3-4
The shields of his mighty men are red; the valiant warriors are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariots flash like fire on the day they are prepared, and the spears of cypress have been brandished. / The chariots dash through the streets; they rush around the plazas, appearing like torches, darting about like lightning.

Zechariah 9:3-4
Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets. / Behold, the Lord will impoverish her and cast her wealth into the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.

Isaiah 5:28
Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.

Jeremiah 50:42
They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon.

Isaiah 66:15
For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.

Revelation 9:9
They also had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.

Isaiah 2:7
Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.

Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

Habakkuk 1:8
Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.

Revelation 14:8
Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”

Isaiah 21:7
When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”

Jeremiah 6:23
They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion.”


Treasury of Scripture

By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

the abundance

Ezekiel 26:7
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.

Jeremiah 47:3
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;

shake

Ezekiel 26:15
Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?

Ezekiel 27:28
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

Nahum 2:3,4
The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken…

enter

Joshua 6:5,20
And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him…

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Ezekiel 26
1. Tyrus, for insulting Jerusalem, is threatened with destruction
7. The power of Nebuchadnezzar against her
15. The mourning and astonishment of the sea at her fall














His multitude of horses
The phrase "His multitude of horses" signifies the overwhelming military power that is about to descend upon Tyre. In the ancient Near Eastern context, horses were a symbol of strength and speed in warfare. The Hebrew word for "horses" (סוּס, sus) often denotes not just the animal but the might and mobility of an army. This imagery underscores the impending doom and the unstoppable force that God is allowing to come against Tyre as a judgment for their pride and sin.

will cover you with dust
The phrase "will cover you with dust" paints a vivid picture of the sheer number of horses and the chaos they bring. In ancient times, the dust raised by an approaching army was a sign of its size and power. The Hebrew root for "dust" (עָפָר, afar) can also symbolize mortality and humility, reminding Tyre of its vulnerability despite its fortified position and wealth. This imagery serves as a humbling reminder of God's sovereignty over nations.

the noise of the cavalry, wagons, and chariots
"The noise of the cavalry, wagons, and chariots" emphasizes the terror and confusion that accompany the invading forces. The Hebrew word for "noise" (קוֹל, qol) often conveys not just sound but a proclamation or announcement. Here, it signifies the announcement of judgment. The mention of "cavalry, wagons, and chariots" highlights the comprehensive nature of the assault, as these were the primary components of a powerful military force in the ancient world.

will shake your walls
The phrase "will shake your walls" indicates the physical and psychological impact of the invasion. Walls in ancient cities were symbols of security and strength. The Hebrew verb for "shake" (רָעַשׁ, ra'ash) can also mean to quake or tremble, suggesting not only the literal shaking of the walls but also the fear and instability that will grip the inhabitants of Tyre. This serves as a metaphor for the crumbling of their false sense of security.

as he enters your gates
"As he enters your gates" signifies the breach of Tyre's defenses and the inevitability of its downfall. Gates were crucial for the protection and control of a city, and their breach symbolized defeat. The Hebrew word for "enters" (בּוֹא, bo) implies not just physical entry but the coming of judgment. This phrase underscores the certainty of God's prophetic word coming to pass.

as men enter a city breached
The final phrase, "as men enter a city breached," conveys the ease with which the invaders will penetrate Tyre's defenses. A breached city is one that has lost its ability to defend itself, and the Hebrew word for "breached" (פָּרַץ, parats) can also mean to break through or burst forth. This imagery highlights the futility of resisting God's judgment and serves as a sobering reminder of the consequences of pride and rebellion against Him.

(10) Shall enter into thy gates.--The whole description of this verse again implies that Nebuchadnezzar had contrived some way by which his armies, with horsemen and chariots, could march into the city, and the prophet gives a glowing poetic description of the effect of their entrance.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
His multitude
מִשִּׁפְעַ֥ת (miš·šip̄·‘aṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8229: Abundance, quantity

of horses
סוּסָ֖יו (sū·sāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5483: A swallow, swift (type of bird)

will cover you
יְכַסֵּ֣ךְ (yə·ḵas·sêḵ)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person feminine singular
Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

in their dust.
אֲבָקָ֑ם (’ă·ḇā·qām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 80: Light particles

When he enters
בְּבֹאוֹ֙ (bə·ḇō·’ōw)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

your gates
בִּשְׁעָרַ֔יִךְ (biš·‘ā·ra·yiḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 8179: An opening, door, gate

as an army entering
כִּמְבוֹאֵ֖י (kim·ḇō·w·’ê)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3996: An entrance, sunset, the west, towards

a breached
מְבֻקָּעָֽה׃ (mə·ḇuq·qā·‘āh)
Verb - Pual - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 1234: To cleave, to rend, break, rip, open

city,
עִ֥יר (‘îr)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

your walls
חֽוֹמוֹתַ֔יִךְ (ḥō·w·mō·w·ṯa·yiḵ)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 2346: A wall of protection

will shake
תִּרְעַ֙שְׁנָה֙ (tir·‘aš·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 7493: To undulate, through fear, to spring

from the noise
מִקּוֹל֩ (miq·qō·wl)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

of cavalry,
פָּרַ֨שׁ (pā·raš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6571: A steed, a driver, cavalry

wagons,
וְגַלְגַּ֜ל (wə·ḡal·gal)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1534: A wheel, a whirlwind, dust

and chariots.
וָרֶ֗כֶב (wā·re·ḵeḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7393: A vehicle, a team, cavalry, a rider, the upper millstone


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