At the sound of the cry of your pilots refers to the sailors crying out in terror and distress as they drown. For pilots see Ezek 27.8. New Century Version renders this line as “when your sailors cry out.”

The countryside shakes: The Hebrew word for countryside normally refers to the common gardens and pasturelands around a village or town, but here it probably refers to the country and villages on the mainland opposite the island on which Tyre stood. New Century Version renders the countryside as “The people on the shore” (similarly Good News Translation, Contemporary English Version), and New International Reader’s Version has “The lands along the coast.” The whole area shakes, that is, the people on the shore will shake with fear as if in an earthquake (compare 26.15).

Quoted with permission from Gross, Carl & Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Ezekiel. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .