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# then I will bring you down to the people of ancient times, like the others who have gone down into the pit; for I will make you live in the lowest parts of the earth as in ruins of ancient times
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What Yahweh would do to Tyre is compared to people going to the grave and cities falling into ruin.
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# the pit
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This refers to the grave. Because the grave was thought to be the entrance to the world of the dead, the pit also represents that world.
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# stand in the land of the living
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This represents being restored to the city's former existence. |