3Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
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The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? …
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)This prophecy is dated in the eleventh year, which was the year that Jerusalem was taken, and in the first day of the month , but it is not said what month, some think the month in which Jerusalem was taken, which was the fourth month, others the month after; or perhaps it was the first month, and so it was the first day of the year. Observe here, I. The pleasure with which the Tyrians looked upon…
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