Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
Ver. 4. Behold, the Lord will cast her out] Or, impoverish her, as some render it; that is, for her money. God can soon let her blood in the vena cava, cavities of her veins, called Marsupium; and make her nudam tanquam ex mari. bare just as out of the sea, And then for her munitions,
He will smite her power in the sea] She was seated in an island, upon munitions of rocks; the sea was to her instead of a threefold wall and ditch. She was better fortified than Venice is; which yet hath flourished above nine hundred years, and was never in the enemy's hands; whence she hath for her motto, Intacta manet. It remains intact. But Tyre was taken by Nebuchadnezzar, as his wages; and afterwards by Alexander, who never held anything impossible that he undertook, however unlikely it were to be effected. He found means to fill up the sea with stones, trees, and rubbish, where it divided Tyre from the continent; and made himself master of it.
And she shall be devoured with fire] Though seated in the heart of the sea, Ezekiel 28:2, and had motted up herself against God's fire. Nothing shall quench the fire that he kindleth.