The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 27:32

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

As in other instances of extreme sorrow, the inarticulate signs of grief pass after a time into spoken words. What city is like Tyrus, etc.? What parallel can be found in the world's history, either for her magnificence or her fall? The shipwreck of her fortunes (we are still in the region of the prophet's metaphors) would be utter and irretrievable.

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