וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ לְצ֗וֹר הישבתי [הַיֹּשֶׁ֙בֶת֙] עַל־מְבוֹאֹ֣ת יָ֔ם רֹכֶ֙לֶת֙ הָֽעַמִּ֔ים אֶל־אִיִּ֖ים רַבִּ֑ים כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה צ֕וֹר אַ֣תְּ אָמַ֔רְתְּ אֲנִ֖י כְּלִ֥ילַת יֹֽפִי׃
dan katakanlah kepada Tirus, yang tinggal di pintu-pintu masuk laut, pedagang bangsa-bangsa ke banyak pulau: Beginilah firman Tuhan Yang Mahakekal: Hai Tirus, engkau telah berkata: ‘Aku sempurna dalam keindahan.’
Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael
And thus with. And thus with. And thus with Tyre and Malchah — With what they vaunted themselves, punishment was exacted of them. As it is written (Ezekiel 17:3) "Tyre, you have said: I am the quintessence of beauty, etc." And of Malchah it is written (Ibid. 28:2) "You have set your heart like the heart of G–d, etc."
Eikhah Rabbah
“All wayfarers clapped their hands over you; they whistled and shook their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: Is this the city that was said to be perfect beauty, the joy of the entire earth?” (Lamentations 2:15).
They “clapped their hands over you.” Rabbi Yoḥanan said in the name of Rabbi Shimon bar Yoḥai: There was a dome of inventory outside of Jerusalem, and anyone who sought to take inventory would run and take inventory there,117Anyone who wanted to take an accounting of his expenditures or business activity could stop under this dome and make his calculations. so that he would not emerge from Jerusalem upset,118Some commentaries assert that the text should read: So that they would not take inventory in Jerusalem and be upset. This is the version of the text found in Shemot Rabba 52:5 (Etz Yosef). to realize what is written: “The joy of the entire earth.” But now, they “clapped their hands over you; they whistled and shook their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem.”
The cities of the nations sing their praise with their mouths. That is what is written: “[Tyre], you said: I am perfect in beauty” (Ezekiel 27:3). But Jerusalem, others recite its praise with their mouths. That is what is written: “Is this the city that was said to be perfect beauty, the joy of the entire earth?”
Rabbi Natan said: A merchant ascended to sell wool. He fell asleep and did not sell. He said: Is this [the city] about which you say that it is “the joy of the entire earth”? He awoke and sold it. He said, you spoke well: “The joy of the entire earth.”
They “clapped their hands over you.” Rabbi Yoḥanan said in the name of Rabbi Shimon bar Yoḥai: There was a dome of inventory outside of Jerusalem, and anyone who sought to take inventory would run and take inventory there,117Anyone who wanted to take an accounting of his expenditures or business activity could stop under this dome and make his calculations. so that he would not emerge from Jerusalem upset,118Some commentaries assert that the text should read: So that they would not take inventory in Jerusalem and be upset. This is the version of the text found in Shemot Rabba 52:5 (Etz Yosef). to realize what is written: “The joy of the entire earth.” But now, they “clapped their hands over you; they whistled and shook their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem.”
The cities of the nations sing their praise with their mouths. That is what is written: “[Tyre], you said: I am perfect in beauty” (Ezekiel 27:3). But Jerusalem, others recite its praise with their mouths. That is what is written: “Is this the city that was said to be perfect beauty, the joy of the entire earth?”
Rabbi Natan said: A merchant ascended to sell wool. He fell asleep and did not sell. He said: Is this [the city] about which you say that it is “the joy of the entire earth”? He awoke and sold it. He said, you spoke well: “The joy of the entire earth.”
Midrash Tanchuma
Similarly, retribution was exacted from Tyre by the very thing in which it prided itself. Thou, O Tyre, hast said: I am of perfect beauty. Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty (Ezek. 27:3–4), and that is followed by: Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up (ibid. 26:3). And the prince of Tyre was likewise punished through the thing for which he had extolled himself. Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre: “Thus saith the Lord: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the heart of the sea; yet thou art a man, and not God, though didst set thy heart as the heart of God, etc. (Ezek. 28:2). Hence, thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers (ibid., v. 10). With whatever nations exalt themselves, retribution is exacted upon them. Hence it is said: For He is highly exalted.