Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 28:7

7 Behold therefore, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations : and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

Cause to come.

A forreign People, called strangers for their multitude in the plural, and to intimate how little regard they would have to the Tyrian glory; these strangers were the Babylonian Forces.

A fierce, violent, and cruel Nation, Hab. 1.7, 8.

Pour contempt and stain.

Thy Royal dignity, depose thee from thy Throne, and kill thy Autority and thy Person.

Marginal references: chap. 30.11. and 31.12. and 32.12.; Those beautiful things, in which thy wisdom appeared; either thy noble regular, and strong buildings, or thy beautiful well stored Arsenal, and Army, or the unparallel'd rarities, which all but rudest Souldiers, would esteem, and spare these Monuments of thy Wisdom.