Ezekiel chapter 27

vs 28

Because so many will drown (or be killed), it will be a really loud noise.

vs 29

Tyre will be abandoned when it becomes clear that it's going to be sieged and destroyed. Who wants to hang around and defend a city that, at the end of the day, isn't their city?

vs 30

They will mourn, of course, as do all people who mourn the loss of riches and the ability to make more riches. Perhaps they are mourning for the huge loss of life... but I doubt it.

vs 31

More of the same, more pictures of mourning. The mourning is because of Tyre and the fall of Tyre, and the impact it has on them, and perhaps just because it is so pathetic that what can you do but mourn?

vs 32

It will be a pretty spectacular thing, only done better by Alexander the Great, who was way too awesome.

vs 33

Definitely a thing to mourn over, then, if there are so many people who profited by it, and now are just watching it fall. Do they come to its defence though? No.

vs 34

Tyre has sunk, as it were. And people just sat back and watched it sink too.

vs 35

Because of course if Tyre falls, then who's next? No-one expected that.

vs 36

But already the scoffing begins. Now with Tyre out of the way, other merchants will have their turn in the sun. So for them it's not all bad at all. No doubt they too were not expecting it, but they are glad for it. Poor Tyre. That's what you get for laughing at Israel's misfortune, I guess.