Day 231: The overthrow of Tyre

I’m still waiting for the dreadful moment - for Jerusalem’s fall. The longer it’s put off, the more prophecies of judgement I read, the darker the storm clouds gather and the sense of dreadful, anticipation builds and builds.

Dishonourable treatment punished
Jeremiah 34:12-22
Prophecy against Egypt
Ezekiel 29:1-7
The desolation of Egypt
Ezekiel 29:8-16
Tyre’s rejoicing
Ezekiel 26:1-2
Tyre’s enemy
Ezekiel 26:3-6
Tyre’s attacker
Ezekiel 26:7-8
Tyre’s destruction
Ezekiel 9-14
A terrifying example
Ezekiel 26:15-21
Tyre’s funeral song
Ezekiel 27:1-25


I read in the people’s treatment of their slaves a parallel to our modern economic behaviour. Following the god of the market makes us enslave people, because it drives down costs, and we do it even if it is not right.
Ezekiel prophesies against Egypt and Tyre, describing how the merciless Babylonians will destroy the once great Egyptian pride. He describes the beauty and majesty of Tyre in loving detail, but you know that it is hollow, and that God’s blunt instrument is waiting to smash it all down.