In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you and lament over you: ‘Who is like Tyre, like one destroyed in the midst of the sea?
Tyre's governors steered her into dangerous waters by their own mismanagement and insolence toward the Chaldeans, provoking Nebuchadnezzar's wrath as surely as an east wind breaks a ship. When those who sit at the helm run the state aground instead of guiding it to harbor, the ruin falls on all who depend upon it.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 27:26-36
When thy wares went forth out of the seas,.... When they were took out of ships, which came to Tyre from all parts, and were landed on the shore, and put up in warehouses, and exposed in markets and The Targum is, "when thy merchandise went out from among the nations;'' being brought from all parts thither: thou filledst many people; by selling them in...
What city is like Tyrus - This, to the end of the chapter, is the lamentation.