‘The word of Yahweh came to me again saying, “Son of man, say to the prince (nagid) of Tyre, thus says the Lord Yahweh.”
This new oracle comes with a deliberate contrast between ‘a prince' in contrast with a Sovereign Lord. The King of Tyre is to recognise that before the Lord Yahweh he is but a ‘prince', a warleader subject to an overall commander, as the early ‘princes' of Israel were to Yahweh. It is a deliberate downgrading of the king because of the king's own upgrading of himself.