Reading for April 5th

Read Ezekiel 26.15-21
In verses 15-18 Princes of the sea is an allusion to Tyre's trading partners and allies.
They shall raise a lamentation: the poem is composed in the "qinah" meter,
characteristic of laments (see comment on 19.1).
In verses 19-21 Ezekiel employs mythological language to portray Tyre's fall.
I bring up the deep over your reverses the imagery of creation in which dry land
emerges from the waters (Gen 1).
Descend into the Pit: Descent into the underworld at death (see 32.17-22; Isa 24.22; Ps 63.9; 139.15) was a characteristic motif of Babylonian mythology in which the fertility god Tammuz had to be rescued from the underworld each year by the goddess Ishtar.
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