Pride goes before destruction

Ezekiel 26:1-21
A prophecy against Tyre.
I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pot, and you will not return or take your place in the land of the living.
Because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, 'Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper.'
The date of Ezekiel's prophecy is probably the end of the 11th year - February 586 - assuming that Ezekiel learnt of the fall of Jerusalem that year, rather than the following one (33:21).
The forecast of this chapter proved all too true.
Tyre did not laugh long over Jerusalem's fate. Within a few months Nebuchadnezzar's army was at her own gates, and for 13 years she was under siege.
Tyre was a tempting誘人的 prey獵物. The city lay at the foot of the Lebanese mountains and possessed the finest natural harbour in the eastern Mediterranean. It was in face a double harbour, as the main city was built on an offshore island.
As a centre of trade and commerce Tyre was fabulously wealthy, and her own glassware and purple dye染 were world famous.
Why?
Proud makes nation or a man goes downfall.
Trade and prosper can not save a nation and her people.
Pride : the state or feeling of being proud.
How?
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverb 16:18)