The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Waves” it comes from the Hebrew Word “gal” which means “waves, billows.”
Ezekiel pronounces extensive judgment against the proud, wealthy trading city of Tyre. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Ezekiel 26.
Ezekiel is instructed to prophesy against Tyrus, since she has said against Jerusalem, “Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste,” therefore He is against Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against her, as the sea causes his “waves,” “gal” in Hebrew, to come up, they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers. Ezekiel describes how He will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock, she shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for He has spoken it, she shall become a spoil to the nations, describing Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon coming against Tyrus from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people, he shall slay her daughters in the field with the sword, and he shall make a fort against her, and cast a mount against her, and lift up the buckler against her. Ezekiel describes how they shall make a spoil of her riches, and make a prey of her merchandise, and they shall break down her walls, and destroy her pleasant houses, and they shall lay her stones and her timber and her dust in the midst of the water, and he shall cause the noise of her songs to cease, and the sound of her harps shall be no more heard, and he shall make her like the top of a rock, she shall be a place to spread nets upon, she shall be built no more, closing with a lament that the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments, clothing themselves with trembling, sitting upon the ground, and taking up a lamentation for her, asking how she has been destroyed, who was inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, this extensive judgment against Tyre reflecting the genuine seriousness with which God held even this powerful, wealthy trading empire accountable for its cruel opportunism.
Ezekiel’s extensive prophecy against Tyre, sparked by the city’s callous delight at Jerusalem’s devastation, demonstrates that economic prosperity and maritime power never exempt any nation from genuine moral accountability for cruel indifference toward a suffering neighbor. This chapter’s vivid image, once-mighty princes stripping their royal robes and sitting in the dust to lament Tyre’s fall, illustrates how even the most seemingly invincible powers ultimately remain genuinely subject to God’s sovereign, historical judgment.
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