9Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
Tyre was a Phoenician seaport located northwest of Israel. The city was built on a rocky fortress, and famously survived a thirteen-year siege by the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar.
9 Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.