1. Tyre's destruction prophesied (26:1-21)

Tyre was the island capital of Phoenicia. The opportunists of this city had gloated when Jerusalem fell. But God would send the Babylonians to besiege and destroy Tyre.

2. A funeral poem for Tyre (27:1-36)

Tyre was a beautiful city. The rich merchants of the world brought their best wares to trade in this wealthy and powerful city. Tyre enjoyed the finest luxuries that the world could offer. Ezekiel compares Tyre to a magnificent ship (1-9); and her fall (25-26) to a shipwreck.

3. The king of Tyre (28:1-26)

The king of Tyre personifies pride and arrogance. His pride and his fall parallel that of Satan, that most beautiful and able of angels who forgot his position, challenged God, and was cast out of heaven. The king of Tyre thought he was a god. When power, wealth, beauty or wisdom make one proud, boastful, and corrupt, God will bring that one down to the ground.

Application: Lord, teach my heart to fear you; give to me and to our nation a spirit of repentance.
One Word: Pride goes before destruction