The Mekhilta concludes its extended discussion of Tyre and its ruler Malchah by citing the prophetic verdicts that sealed their fate — and then draws a sweeping theological conclusion from every example it has presented.
About Tyre, the prophet Ezekiel records God's declaration: "Behold, I am against you, O Tyre" (Ezekiel 26:3). The city that called itself the pinnacle of beauty would face the Creator of beauty Himself as an adversary. No earthly alliance could help when the One who made the seas turned the seas against the island fortress.
About Malchah, the prince of Tyre who set his heart "like the heart of God," the verdict was equally pointed: "You will die the death of the uncircumcised" (Ezekiel 28:10). The ruler who imagined himself divine would die the most common, most inglorious death imaginable — stripped of every pretension, revealed as nothing more than mortal flesh.
The Mekhilta then offers its grand conclusion: from all these examples — Pharaoh, Sisra, Samson, Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, Tyre, and Malchah — we learn that whatever the nations of the world use to vaunt themselves, that same thing becomes the instrument of their punishment. Therefore it is written: "for He is high on high." God stands above every form of human pride, every boast, every earthly power. The higher a person or a nation elevates itself, the more clearly God's supreme authority is demonstrated when that pride is brought down.