Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters— This is a proper allegory, says Bishop Warburton, with only one real sense; and it is managed by the prophet with that brevity and expedition, which a proper allegory demands, when used in the place of a metaphor. He is here speaking of Tyre under the image of a ship. Houbigant renders the verse, They who shall spoil thee, shall bring thee into many waters; and a vehement wind shall break thee in the midst of the seas. This alludes to the destruction of Tyre by the Chaldeans. Grotius refers to Horace, Od. lib. Ezekiel 1:14 :
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Ezekiel 27:26
26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midstk of the seas.