Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
Who - Answered in Isaiah 23:9, "The Lord of hosts."
The crowning city - crown-giving: i:e., the city from which dependent kingdoms had arisen, as Tartessus in Spain, Citium in Cyprus, and Carthage in Africa (Ezekiel 27:33).
Whose traffickers - literally, Canaanites, who were famed for commerce, (cf. Hosea 12:7, margin.)