Ezekiel 26:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

As barren sandy islets in the midst of the sea, good for nothing but to dry fishermen's nets, shalt thou be. A spoil; a prey: though the contexture of the words place this after its being made so bare and poor, yet we are to observe, that these last words give us account how this poverty and barrenness shall come upon thy rich city; the nations shall spoil her with thirteen years long siege, interruption of trade, living on the quick stock, and finally taken on surrender. To the nations; Babylonians, and their confederates, who made the Tyrians pay the reckoning.