Ezekiel 26

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXVI.—God highly resents our taking pleasure in the death or decay of others for the sake of our own carnal advantage. And there is little reason to boast of, or trust in, created enjoyments, when the most wealthy and powerful cities may quickly be so ruined as that the place where they stood shall not be known. No weak is human strength, so failing human greatness, and so tottering the rocky foundations of cities! Alas, the dreadful effects of sin, especially in hell! And how just is it that they who, priding themselves in their own strength, took pleasure to affright their inferiors, by the display of it, should likewise affright and astonish them by the suddenness or strangeness of their punishments. It is common for worldly men to lament the death of great rather than of good men. And marvellously will God connect his own glory and the restoration of his people with the ruinous destruction of his and their enemies