Ezekiel 28:7

God would teach him that his responsibility matched what should have been his profit, not his pride. His doom would only be the more stern and sure and swift… If he aspired to be God in his pretensions, he would feel what it is to be man in weakness. The sword of the dreaded stranger would defile his brightness. He would die the deaths of those slain in the heart of the seas. The sea would prove then no unbreakable shelter, but his most shameful grave.

The prince was the head and centre and personification of the pride and wealth found in Tyre as a whole. No kind of pride is baser, more blinding, or more corrupting. It lives on selfishness, appeals to selfishness, and selfishness lifts it up in its grossest form. No wonder the New Testament brands covetousness as idolatry, and describes the love of money as a root of all evil… It is common to all who amass wealth to give themselves credit for wisdom. So did the prince. Was he rich toward God? No — he had amassed riches, and gold and silver had crowded into his treasury. This was the aim of his wisdom, this its triumph, for it was his own doing. Self, not God, was in all his thoughts.

Here the prophecy names the instrument of divine vengeance plainly. It is not that God had the smallest sympathy with the terrible of the nations and their drawn swords, nor with the strangers who laid the country waste. But the hour to judge its proud wickedness was at hand, and the worst was the fitting executioner to do the dread work.

Woe to the nation so used if she becomes lifted up with pride at it. For as surely as God rules with justice, so surely shall she be humbled in her turn.

The word to the prince of Tyre is what he has become in his pride after he is prince; to the king, what he was before he is king — before iniquity was found in him… Although a prince, he was only a man; and the "terrible of the nations" — the Chaldeans — would carry out God's wrath.

Tyre is a picture of the commercial glory of the world, its wealth and pride. It foreshadows the final great world-city or world-system, Babylon. So the ruler of Tyre, spoken of as prince, foreshadows the Antichrist; while as king, Satan himself stands behind him as the dominating power.

Travellers are convinced that the waves of the sea now roll where the vast and magnificent palaces of Tyrian wealth and luxury once stood. The storm of God's anger has swept away the monuments of commercial enterprise and prosperity, and they are as if they had never been. Another traveller says he found nothing but a confused heap of broken walls, pillars, vaults and the like, with not so much as one whole house left!