27:10-25a
The second part is described by Taylor’s commentary as “the trade directory”. It is a lost of all the nations that dealt with her, all aspects of trade were covered, including human trafficking for slavery (27:13). The nations included Israel and Judah, though by this time Israel would not have been doing much, following her being vanquished by Assyria many years earlier. Many nations fed off her success, just as many nations feed off the wealth of America, or of China today. Yet when the successful nation fails, as it will inevitably do one day, the effect is felt all around the world.
27:25b-36
The third and final part is the fall of Tyre. So we have had a description of the things she was admired for, then a list of all the nations which traded on that prowess, now comes the fall. The sailors who crewed her mighty ships would be helpless as the mighty storm arose against her. By the way, the storm here is allegorical. Since she was a seafaring nation the analogy of a storm is used to describe her downfall. The actual “storm” is the nations that besieged her. The sailors who once looked so competent, knowing exactly what they were doing, will now be at a total loss. They had “enriched the kings of the earth” (v33), but now she would be nothing at all. No longer would she be admired, but instead the nations would scoff at her.
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