Ezekiel 26:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ It shall become, in the midst of the sea, a place for spreading nets. I have spoken, says the Lord God. It shall become plunder for the nations,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Her island in the midst of the sea shall become a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken it, says the Lord God; and she shall become a prey and a spoil to the nations.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.

Common English Bible

⁵ a place for drying nets in the middle of the sea. I have spoken! This is what the LORD God says. It will become prey for the nations,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ She will be a drying place for nets from the midst of the sea. For I have spoken, says the Lord God. And she will be a spoil for the Gentiles.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ She shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the sea, because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she shall be a spoil to the nations.

Ezekiel 26:5 Cross References

Ezekiel 25:7

therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 26:14

I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets. You shall never again be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 26:19

For thus says the Lord God: When I make you a city laid waste, like cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

Ezekiel 27:32

In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you and lament over you: “Who was ever destroyed like Tyre in the midst of the sea?

Ezekiel 29:19

Therefore thus says the Lord God: I will give the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it, and it shall be the wages for his army.

Ezekiel 47:10

People will stand fishing beside the sea from En-gedi to En-eglaim; it will be a place for the spreading of nets; its fish will be of a great many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.