The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth, establishing God as the active agent in Tyre's judgment and establishing the judgment's cosmic significance: the humbling of earthly pride and honor. The defiling of glory and dishonoring of the honored establish the judgment as reaching to the fundamental sources of human status and prestige. The cosmic language—the LORD of hosts—invokes the full weight of divine authority and suggests that what appears in earthly terms as commerce and politics is, from the cosmic perspective, a matter of ultimate spiritual significance. The oracle establishes that God's judgment of pride and human exaltation operates on the largest scales and affects the greatest powers.

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