"Therefore," continues EZEKIEL, "thus saith the LORD GOD: Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many Nations to come up against thee, as the Sea causeth his waves to come up. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will scrape her dust from her and make her like the top of a rock. _It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the Sea_; [how truly fulfilled!] for I have spoken it, saith the LORD GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the Nations. And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain with the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD. For thus saith the LORD GOD:--Behold I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, a King of Kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people," &c. The remaining part of the Prophecy is not required,--the cause is shewn,--the punishment and the avenger. The Prophecy was uttered by EZEKIEL in the year in which Jerusalem was destroyed (the Temple of which the Tyrians of a former age had erected and adorned), and consequently three years before the commencement of the Siege of Tyrus by the Babylonian. The doom of Tyrus was also foretold by ISAIAH and JEREMIAH; and by the former, that the Nation should cease for _seventy years_. He prophesied one hundred and twenty-seven years, and JEREMIAH twenty-one years before the Siege by the King of Babylon. It was strictly fulfilled. The investment commenced in the reign of Ithobalus [_i. e._ Eth-baal] the Second, and lasted _thirteen_ years--the longest Siege on record. Troy was only _ten_; the Roman Siege of Veii, by Camillus, occupied the same period. It has already been shewn, upon the authority of ISAIAH and EZEKIEL, that the _Island_ of Tyrus must have been partly inhabited, for they distinctly allude to the "Isle." The metropolis proper, with its Temples and splendour, was on the mainland,--and this was the _City_ besieged by the Conqueror of Egypt and Judæa. The Island he could not reach from the want of Galleys; his force consisting of Chariots, Cavalry, and Infantry. It was impossible, therefore, to take Tyrus (one side being on the Sea) as he had captured Jerusalem, through the terrific means of Famine,--the horrors of which are so powerfully depicted in the Lamentations of JEREMIAH; and in reference to Judæa, foretold by the first Lawgiver nearly nine centuries before! The Tyrians, through the means of their shipping, continually supplied the Capital with provisions,--thence the duration of the Siege, and Nebuchadnezzar had not the genius of the subsequent and final Conqueror of Tyrus--the heroic Macedonian.