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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 imposed 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 Edim, and Felicitya.

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 all of that would be taken away and he would be

be dismayed at how this once renowned

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