Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 28:7

"therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness." — Ezekiel 28:7 (ASV)

Against the beauty of your wisdom.— The figure seems incongruous, but it should be remembered that the expression is only a form of designating Tyre itself. The description of the Chaldeans as the terrible of the nations is repeated in Ezekiel 30:11 and Ezekiel 31:12 (Compare also to Ezekiel 26:7 and Isaiah 47:6; Habakkuk 1:6). The term, however, is by no means necessarily confined to them.