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Ezekiel chapter 26, verses 17 and 18.

And they will raise a lamentation over you and say to you how you have perished.

You who were inhabited from the seas, O city renowned, who is mighty on the sea,

she and her inhabitants impose their terror on all her

inhabitants. Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall, and the coastlands that are on the sea

are dismayed at your passing. So this is the end of two chapters in Ezekiel, chapter 25 and 26 that begin a series of chapters

in the book of Ezekiel where God tells Ezekiel to prophesy against not his people in

Judah, the people of God, people of Israel, instead to the neighbors, the nations

surrounding Judah, surrounding his people. So chapter 25 starts with a prophecy against Ammon,

then Moab and Seer and Edom and Philistia. And then chapter 26 begins a prophecy against Tyre.

And that's what this whole chapter is about.

The reason I read these two verses and want to pray according to them,

verses 17 and 18, is because God is basically speaking to a nation and a people that had prospered.

And he's talking about how they were mighty on the sea and imposing terror on others.

They were renowned.

But now in an instant, God says says all of that would be taken away and he would bring them low.

And the coastlands would be dismayed at how this once renowned powerful people just like that were gone.

Just like that went the total opposite direction.

And reading these chapters, these prophecies from God through Ezekiel among the nations is a sobering reminder

that no matter how great, powerful, influential a nation might be, might claim to be,

might be perceived to be, nations come and fall and can fall just like that

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