Ezekiel 26:1-6
God judges the nations when they treat another people's calamity as a doorway to their own prosperity, because the downfall of Jerusalem is not permission for arrogant exploitation but an arena in which the Lord reveals His sovereign justice.
1 In the eleventh year, in the first of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
2 “Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples has been returned to me. I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste;’
3 therefore the Lord Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.
4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
5 She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh. ‘She will become plunder for the nations.
6 Her daughters who are in the field will be slain with the sword. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’
God judges the nations when they treat another people's calamity as a doorway to their own prosperity, because the downfall of Jerusalem is not permission for arrogant exploitation but an arena in which the LORD reveals His sovereign justice.
To announce the LORD's judgment against Tyre because Tyre interpreted Jerusalem's fall as commercial opportunity and self-enrichment. The passage exposes gloating over covenant disaster as rebellion against the LORD's moral rule and declares that Tyre's prosperity, security, and coastal identity will be stripped away under divine judgment.
The oracle is dated in the eleventh year, in the aftermath of Jerusalem's collapse. The canonical wording supplies the day but does not supply a month in the preserved text of Ezekiel 26:1.