VI: The Prophets' Visions

Tyre's Mourners: Kings, Merchants and Mariners Counterfeit court

profiteers mourning lost trade, not sin

Root
Ezek 27:29-36 · Tsor (H6865)
Old Testament chain
  1. Isa 23:1-14
  2. Isa 47:7-8
  3. Lam 1:1
  4. Ezek 26:15-18
  5. Ezek 27:29-36
  6. Zeph 2:15
  7. Rev 18:9-19
New Testament
Rev 18; Rev 18:3, 9; Rev 18:7; Rev 18:9-19; Rev 18:9-10; Rev 19; Rev 20

Isaiah bids the ships of Tarshish howl for Tyre (Isa 23:1), and Ezekiel stages the lament: princes come down from their thrones, "the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall stand upon the land" and cast dust on their heads (Ezek 26:16; 27:29-30). Babylon boasts, "I shall not sit as a widow" (Isa 47:8), the very widow Jerusalem became (Lam 1:1). Tyre was the preview; Babylon in Revelation is the full feature. Kings, merchants and mariners grieve not for Babylon but for their own lost profit, showing power without repentance. Her boast "I sit a queen, and am no widow" (Rev 18:7) is turned into her own three charges.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 191, 305, 307, 309–313