in 26:7–14. It begins with naming Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, as the city’s opponent and describes the techniques and implements of a siege assault. Ezekiel’s message is again a declaration of Tyre’s inevitable downfall, with no clear reason given for it. The prophet follows through his poetic picture as though the attack on Tyre were no different from a normal land assault. Certainly, the sea was Tyre’s first and most important line of defense. (Among the most interesting of Assyrian portrayals