“Thus says Yahweh God!
‘Tyre!
Will not the coastlands
Shake
At the sound
Of your fall?
Will not the wounded
Groan,
When slaughter
Goes on
Within you?’”
Yahweh, via Ezekiel, said the demise of Tyre would have a big impact on the other coastal towns, if it was to fall. The shaking of the walls and the groaning of the wounded ones would be heard by many people. There would be a great slaughter among the people of Tyre.
“Let not the archer
Bend his bow!
Let him not array himself
In his coat of mail!
Do not spare
Her young men!
Utterly destroy
Her entire army!
They shall fall down slain
In the land
Of the Chaldeans,
Wounded
In her streets.”
In this battle with Babylon, the Babylonian archers with their bows and arrows would be useless. Those who put on armored coats of mail would also find little protection. The invaders were to utterly destroy the young men and the army of the Babylonians. They were to defeat the Chaldeans in their own streets, even letting the wounded ones lay there.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 