“For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you,
The utter ruin of Tyre is here represented in very strong and lively figures, which are exceedingly affecting. 1. See how high, how great, Tyre had been, how little likely ever to come to this. The remembrance of men's former grandeur and plenty is a great aggravation of their present disgrace and poverty.
Commenting on Ezekiel 26:15-21
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit,.... The grave, and make thee like to them: with the people of old time; either the people of the old world, or, however, who have been dead long ago: and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth; where the dead are laid: in places desolate of old: long ago...
great waters--appropriate metaphor of the Babylonian hosts, which literally, by breaking down insular Tyre's ramparts, caused the sea to "cover" part of her.