Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 26:5

"She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah; and she shall become a spoil to the nations." — Ezekiel 26:5 (ASV)

The spreading of nets. —Such has been the chief use of insular Tyre for ages, and although a miserable village of 3,000 people has sprung up, chiefly within the present century, upon a part of its site, other parts still have no more important use. The Tyre upon the mainland has so utterly disappeared that even its site cannot be exactly identified.