[1] The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, [2] You, son of man, take
up a lamentation over Tyre; [3] and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry
of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many isles, thus says
the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, 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 Senir; they
have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. [6] Of the oaks of
Bashan have they made your oars; they have made your benches of ivory
inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim. [7] Of fine linen with
embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you for an
ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was your awning. [8] The
inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were
in you, they were your pilots. [9] The old men of Gebal and the wise men of
it were in you your repairers of ship seams: all the ships of the sea with
their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise. [10] Persia and Lud
and Put were in your army, your men of war: they hanged the shield and
helmet in you; they set forth your comeliness. [11] The men of Arvad with
your army were on your walls round about, and valorous men were in your
towers; they hanged their shields on your walls round about; they have
perfected your beauty. [12] Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the
multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they
traded for your wares. [13] Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your
traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your
merchandise. [14] They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with
horses and war-horses and mules. [15] The men of Dedan were your
traffickers; many isles were the market of your hand: they brought you in
exchange horns of ivory and ebony. [16] Syria was your merchant by reason
of the multitude of your handiworks: they traded for your wares with
emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and
rubies. [17] Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers:
they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections, and
honey, and oil, and balm. [18] Damascus was your merchant for the multitude
of your handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with
the wine of Helbon, and white wool. [19] Vedan and Javan traded with yarn
for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your
merchandise. [20] Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
[21] Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of your
hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they your merchants.
[22] The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers; they
traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious
stones, and gold. [23] Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba,
Asshur [and] Chilmad, were your traffickers. [24] These were your
traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and
in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your
merchandise. [25] The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your
merchandise: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart
of the seas. [26] Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east
wind has broken you in the heart of the seas. [27] Your riches, and your
wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of
ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war,
who are in you, with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall
fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin. [28] At the sound
of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake. [29] All who handled the
oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from
their ships; they shall stand on the land, [30] and shall cause their voice
to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on
their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: [31] and they shall
make themselves bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall
weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning. [32] In their
wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you,
[saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the
midst of the sea? [33] When your wares went forth out of the seas, you
filled many peoples; you did enrich the kings of the earth with the
multitude of your riches and of your merchandise. [34] In the time that you
were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and
all your company did fall in the midst of you. [35] All the inhabitants of
the isles are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they
are troubled in their face. [36] The merchants among the peoples hiss at
you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
