1 The word of the
2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea,
4 Thy borders
5 They have made all thy
6 Of
7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise
9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise
10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
11 The men of Arvad with thine army
12 Tarshish
13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they
14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
15 The men of Dedan
16 Syria
17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they
18 Damascus
19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
20 Dedan
21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these
22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they
23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur,
24 These
25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that
28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners,
30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart
32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee,
33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
34 In the time
35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in
36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never