In the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: 'Son of man, because Tyre said, "Aha!" against Jerusalem when the gate of the peoples was broken, and it turned to me, dating the oracle and specifying Tyre's sin as malicious gloating over Jerusalem's downfall and territorial opportunity. The oracle against Tyre marks a significant expansion in scope, moving from smaller neighboring nations to a major international commercial power, suggesting that economic and political preeminence do not exempt nations from divine accountability. Tyre's specific sin—commercial and territorial opportunism masked as satisfaction—reveals how economic behavior expresses theological allegiance or rebellion.

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