Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
every head . . . bald, . . . shoulder . . . peeled—with carrying baskets of earth and stones for the siege works.
no wages . . . for the service—that is, in proportion to it and the time and labor which he expended on the siege of Tyre. Not that he actually failed in the siege (JEROME expressly states, from Assyrian histories, that Nebuchadnezzar succeeded); but, so much of the Tyrian resources had been exhausted, or transported to her colonies in ships, that little was left to compensate Nebuchadnezzar for his thirteen year's siege.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezekiel 29:18:
Jeremiah 43:10
Jeremiah 46:13-26
Ezekiel 26:2
Ezekiel 26:12
Ezekiel 26:18
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