Ezekiel 28:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I will send; the pestilence is one of God's arrows, and he sends it wheresoever it walks; it is one of his sore judgments, and wasteth where it cometh. Pestilence; the most dreadful of diseases, because most deadly, swift, and comes so immediately from the wrath of God offended with men; this pestilence attends on war, and seldom faileth to make havoc in besieged towns or cities. Blood; bloody war by an enemy, that shall bring the war to the gates, nay, into the streets of Zidon. Be judged; fall, be cast down, punished, in the midst of the city. By the sword; by her enemy's sword prevailing and conquering. On every side; a description either of the siege that Zidon should suffer by, or pointing out the multitude of her enemies on every side agreeing against her.