Ezekiel 26

Tyre was a very rich city, and greatly renowned in regard of the trade which all nations had with it, as also in regard of the towns of war and cities habitable which it built: as Carthage, which imitated the Roman Empire; Utica, Leptis, Gades, and other cities, who all sent the…

And the word which we have here for desolate places, is in Scripture clearly applied to the grave, or a place of burial. We have it in Ezekiel 26:20, where the prophet, foreshowing the destruction of Tyre, speaks from the Lord thus: When I shall bring you down with them that des…