Lament over Tyre
Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to me saying, 2 “Now as for you, son of man, atake up a lamentation over Tyre 3 and say to Tyre, awho inhabits the entrance to the sea, a btrader of the peoples to many coastlands, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh,
“O Tyre, you have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
Your builders have perfected your beauty.
5 They have made all your planks of fir trees from aSenir;
They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
6 Of aoaks from bBashan they have made your oars;
With ivory they have inlaid your deck of boxwood from the coastlands of cCyprus.
7 Your sail was of fine embroidered linen from Egypt
So that it became your standard;
Your awning was ablue and purple from the coastlands of bElishah.
8 The inhabitants of Sidon and aArvad were your rowers;
Your bwise men, O Tyre, were aboard; they were your pilots.
9 The elders of aGebal and her wise men were with you repairing your seams;
All the ships of the sea and their sailors were with you in order to deal in your merchandise.
10 “aPersia and aLud and aPut were in your military force, your men of war. They hung shield and helmet in you; they set forth your majesty. 11 The sons of Arvad and your military force were on your walls, all around, and the Gammadim were in your towers. They hung their small shields on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.
12 “Tarshish was your customer because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; with silver, iron, tin, and lead they paid for your wares. 13 aJavan, aTubal, and bMeshech, they were your traders; with the clives of men and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise. 14 Those from aBeth-togarmah gave horses and war horses and mules for your wares. 15 The sons of aDedan were your traders. Many coastlands were customers at your hand; bivory tusks and ebony they brought as your payment. 16 aAram was your customer because of the abundance of your goods; they paid for your wares with bemeralds, purple, cembroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies. 17 Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders; with the wheat of aMinnith, cakes, honey, oil, and balm they paid for your merchandise. 18 aDamascus was your customer because of the abundance of your goods, because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth, because of the wine of Helbon and white wool. 19 Also Vedan and Javan paid for your wares from Uzal; wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were among your merchandise. 20 aDedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding. 21 aArabia and all the princes of Kedar, they were customers at your hand for blambs, rams, and goats; for these, they were your customers. 22 The traders of aSheba and Raamah, they traded with you; they paid for your wares with the best of all kinds of bspices and with all kinds of precious stones and gold. 23 Haran, Canneh, aEden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you. 24 They traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of many colors and tightly wound cords, which were among your merchandise. 25 The aships of Tarshish were the carriers for your merchandise.
And you were filled and were very glorious
In the heart of the seas.
26 “Your rowers have brought you
Into agreat waters;
The beast wind has broken you
In the heart of the seas.
27 Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise,
Your sailors and your pilots,
Your repairers of seams, your dealers in merchandise,
And all your men of war who are in you,
With all your assembly that is in your midst,
Will fall into the heart of the seas
On the day of your downfall.
28 At the sound of the cry of your pilots
The pasture lands will ashake.
29 All who handle the oar,
The asailors and all the pilots of the sea,
Will come down from their ships;
They will stand on the land,
30 And they will amake their voice heard over you
And will cry bitterly.
They will bcast dust on their heads;
They will cwallow in ashes.
31 Also they will make themselves abald for you
And bgird themselves with sackcloth;
And they will cweep for you in bitterness of soul
With bitter mourning.
32 Moreover, in their wailing they will take up a alamentation for you
And lament over you:
‘Who is like Tyre,
Like her who is silent in the midst of the sea?
33 When your wares went out from the seas,
You satisfied a great number of peoples;
With the agreatness of your wealth and your merchandise
You enriched the kings of earth.
34 Now that you are abroken by the seas
In the depths of the waters,
Your bmerchandise and all your assembly
Have fallen in the midst of you.
35 All the ainhabitants of the coastlands
Are appalled at you,
And their kings are horribly horrified;
They are troubled in countenance.
36 The merchants among the peoples ahiss at you;
You have become terrified,
And you bwill cease to be forever.’”’”