3, 4. nations . . . as the sea . . . waves--In striking contrast to the
boasting of Tyre, God threatens to bring against her Babylon's army
levied from "many nations," even as the Mediterranean waves that dashed
against her rock-founded city on all sides.
scrape her dust . . . make her . . . top of . . . rock--or, "a bare
rock" [GROTIUS]. The soil which the Tyrians had brought together upon
the rock on which they built their city, I will scrape so clean away as
to leave no dust, but only the bare rock as it was. An awful contrast to
her expectation of filling herself with all the wealth of the East
now that Jerusalem has fallen.
JFB.
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