John Trapp on Ezekiel 29:18

Ver. 18. To ſerve a great ſervice] For thirteen years together, as ſaith Joſephus.

Every head was made bald] ſc. By continual carrying upon their heads and ſhoulders, earth, wood, and ſtones (for which they were much laughed at by the Tyrian ſouldiers) to fill up that ſtrait of the Sea, which ſeparated Tyre from the Continent, before it could be taken.

Yet he had no wages] The Tyrians, when they ſaw they could hold out no longer, had ſent much of their wealth away to Carthage, and other places: much of it alſo they caſt into the Sea, ſaith Lyra; ſo that Nebuchadnezzar at his entrance found nothing but a bare rock, ſaith Hierom, out of an old Aſſyrian Chronicle.