Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
Behold, the Lord will cast her out - (Ezekiel 26:4; Ezekiel 26:12; Ezekiel 27:27).
Cast her out. The Hebrew х yowrishenaah (H3423)], dispossess her - i:e., will cast her inhabitants into exile (Grotius). [literally, will possess her, from yaarash (H3423), to possess.] Alexander, though without a navy, by incredible labour constructed a mole of the ruins of Old Tyre (fulfilling Ezekiel 26:4-12, etc., by "scraping her dust from her," and "laying her stones, timber, and dust, in the midst of the water"), from the shore to the island, and, after a seven months' siege, took the city by storm, slew with the sword about 8,000, enslaved. 13,000, crucified 2,000, and set the city on "fire," as here foretold (Curtius, B. 4).
And he will smite her power in the sea - situated though she be in the sea, and so seeming impregnable (cf. Ezekiel 28:2, "I sit in the seat of God in the midst of the seas"). "Her power" includes not only her fortifications, but her fleet, all of which Alexander sunk in the sea before her very walls (Curtius, B. 4). Ezekiel 26:17 corresponds, "How art thou destroyed which wast strong in the sea.