As I saw Tyrus] i.e. like Tyre. Pleasant place] perhaps fold, as in Jeremiah 23:3, the reference being to security rather than natural beauty.

14. The prophet here appeals to God's justice to carry out the punishment foretold. The prophet has his moods; at one time an earnest hope for the nation's repentance, at another a disgust at their hopeless irreligion and immoralities. Even here the language implies a struggle of different feelings. He seems to begin with a prayer and to end with something like a curse.

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