Ezekiel 26:19-21
Tyre's judgment is complete because the Lord Himself will make the city desolate, cover it with the deep, bring it down to the pit, and render it sought but never found.
19 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I bring up the deep on you, and the great waters cover you;
20 then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.
21 I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
Tyre's judgment is complete because the LORD Himself will make the city desolate, cover it with the deep, bring it down to the pit, and render it sought but never found.
To declare that the LORD's judgment on Tyre will reach beyond military defeat into irreversible desolation, descent, and removal, so that a city once renowned among the living becomes a warning sign of divine finality.
The oracle belongs to Ezekiel's exilic foreign-nations judgment section, where the fall of Jerusalem does not end the LORD's rule but becomes the context in which He judges surrounding nations and imperial-commercial powers. Tyre was a powerful maritime and commercial city associated with sea trade, regional influence, and economic opportunity. Ezekiel's portrayal of Tyre being overwhelmed by depths and made unfindable is theological prophetic speech: the city that treated Jerusalem's fall as opportunity is itself placed under the LORD's judgment.