ing, thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten φοϊά απὰ silver into
thy treasures: By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou in-
creased thy riches ; and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches ;
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, Because thou hast set thine heart
as the heart of God: Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers upon
thee, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords
against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness :
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of
them that are slain in the midst of the seas. 'The prophets, Joel and
Amos, had before denounced the Divine judgments upon the Tyrians
for their wickedness in general, and in particular, for their cruelty
to the children of Israel, and for buying and selling them like cattle
in the markets. Thus saith the Lord, by the prophet Joel, (iii. 5,
&c.) Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried
into your temples my goodly pleasant things: The children also of
Judah, and the children of Jerusalem, have ye sold unto the Grecians,
that ye might remove them far from their border: Behold, I will raise
them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your
recompence upon your own head. Amos speaketh to the same pur-
pose, (i. 9.) Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Tyrus,
and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof ; because
they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not
the brotherly covenant, that is, the league and alliance between
Hiram, king of Tyre, on one part, and David and Solomon on the
other. The Psalmist reckons them among the most inveterate and —
implacable enemies of the Jewish name and nation. (Psalm Ixxxiii. ©
6,7.) The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, of Moab, and —
the Hagarenes, Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the Philistines, with —
the inhabitants of Tyre. Tzekiel, also, begins his prophecy against —
them with a declaration, that it was occasioned by their insulting —
over the Jews upon the taking of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. |
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