I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more: These words form a refrain at the end of each of the major prophecies against Tyre (compare 27.36; 28.19). Dreadful end renders a Hebrew word meaning “great terror” (similarly King James Version / New King James Version). This word can be understood in two ways in this context as follows:

(1) Tyre is the one that experiences the great terror; for example, New American Standard Bible renders the first clause of this verse as “I shall bring terrors on you.” Most translations understand this word to refer to “a horrible death” (Contemporary English Version) or “a terrible end” (New Living Translation; similarly Revised Standard Version/New Revised Standard Version, New International Version, New International Reader’s Version) that Tyre will suffer. God will “utterly destroy” (Moffatt) the city.
(2) What happens to Tyre will bring great terror to others; for example, Jerusalem Bible and New Jerusalem Bible say “I will make you an object of terror,” and Good News Translation has “I will make you a terrifying example” (similarly Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch). This means “Other people will be afraid of what happened to you” (New Century Version), because they fear that the same things may happen to them.

Although the first meaning is more likely, either interpretation is acceptable.

You shall be no more means the city of Tyre will cease to exist when the terrifying thing happens. This clause may be rendered “you will not exist anymore.”

Though you be sought for, you will never be found again: This sentence reinforces the completeness of Tyre’s destruction. New Century Version says “People will look for you, but they will never find you again.”

Says the Lord GOD: The prophecy ends with this solemn formal declaration of God’s message (see Ezek 26.5).

Quoted with permission from Gross, Carl & Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Ezekiel. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .