A Lament Over Tyre

[Sung Psalm: 72]

Ezekiel 26-28 is one unit, but we'll take two weeks to go through it.

There is essentially one message given in three ways. You can see this in the conclusion of each chapter:
“I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more.” (26:21)
“you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever” (27:36)
“you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever” (28:19)

What makes this message so interesting is that Tyre still stands in exactly the same place today! There is no evidence from scripture – or from history – that Tyre ever came to a dreadful end.

The city of Sur (the modern pronunciation of Tyre) still stands.

We need to understand the context in order to understand what Ezekiel is doing here...