Wail, O ^(C)ships of Tarshish,
    for Tyre is laid waste, ^(D)without house or harbour!
From ^(E)the land of Cyprus^[a]
    it is revealed to them.
² Be still, O inhabitants of the coast;
    the merchants of ^(F)Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you.
³ And on many waters
your revenue was the grain of Shihor,
    the harvest of the Nile;
    you were ^(G)the merchant of the nations.
⁴ Be ashamed, O ^(H)Sidon, for the sea has spoken,
    the stronghold of the sea, saying:
“I have neither laboured nor given birth,
    I have neither reared young men
    nor brought up young women.”
⁵ When the report comes to Egypt,
    they will be in anguish^[b] over the report about Tyre.
^6 (I)Cross over to Tarshish;
    wail, O inhabitants of the coast!
⁷ Is this your exultant city
    ^(J)whose origin is from days of old,
whose feet carried her
    to settle far away?
⁸ Who has purposed this
    against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes,
    whose traders were the honoured of the earth?
⁹ The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
    ^(K)to defile the pompous pride of all glory,^[c]
    to dishonour all the honoured of the earth.
¹⁰ Cross over your land like the Nile,
    O daughter of Tarshish;
    there is no restraint any more.
^11 (L)He has stretched out his hand over the sea;
    he has shaken the kingdoms;
the Lord has given command concerning Canaan
    to destroy its strongholds.
¹² And he said:
“You will no more exult,
    O oppressed virgin daughter of ^(M)Sidon;
arise, ^(N)cross over to ^(O)Cyprus,
    even there you will have no rest.”

^14 (R)Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
    for your stronghold is laid waste.

¹⁶ “Take a harp;
    go about the city,
    O forgotten prostitute!
Make sweet melody;
    sing many songs,
    that you may be remembered.”

^(C)“Because your heart is proud,
    and ^(D)you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods,
    in the heart of the seas’,
yet ^(E)you are but a man, and no god,
    ^(F)though you make your heart like the heart of a god—
^3 (G)you are indeed wiser ^(H)than ^(I)Daniel;
    no secret is hidden from you;
⁴ by your wisdom and your understanding
    ^(J)you have made wealth for yourself,
and have gathered gold and silver
    into your treasuries;
⁵ by your great wisdom in your trade
    you have increased your wealth,
    and ^(K)your heart has become proud in your wealth—
⁶ therefore thus says the Lord God:
^(L)Because you make your heart
    like the heart of a god,
⁷ therefore, behold, I will bring ^(M)foreigners upon you,
    the most ruthless of the nations;
and they shall draw their swords against ^(N)the beauty of your wisdom
    and defile ^(O)your splendour.
^8 (P)They shall thrust you down into the pit,
    ^(Q)and you shall die the death of the slain
    in the heart of the seas.
^9 (R)Will you still say, ‘I am a god’,
    in the presence of those who kill you,
though ^(S)you are but a man, and no god,
    in the hands of those who slay you?
^10 (T)You shall die the death of the uncircumcised
    by the hand of foreigners;
    ^(U)for I have spoken, declares the Lord God.”

“You were the signet of perfection,^{[a]
    (Y)}full of wisdom and ^(Z)perfect in beauty.
¹³ You were in ^(AA)Eden, the garden of God;
    ^(AB)every precious stone was your covering,
^(AC)sardius, topaz, and diamond,
    beryl, onyx, and jasper,
sapphire,^{[b] (AD)}emerald, and carbuncle;
    and crafted in gold were your settings
    and your engravings.^[c]
(AE)On the day that you were created
    they were prepared.
¹⁴ You were an anointed ^(AF)guardian cherub.
    I placed you;^[d] you were on ^(AG)the holy mountain of God;
    in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.
¹⁵ You were blameless in your ways
    ^(AH)from the day you were created,
    till unrighteousness was found in you.
¹⁶ In the abundance of ^(AI)your trade
    you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned;
so I cast you as a profane thing from ^(AJ)the mountain of God,
    and I destroyed you,^{[e] (AK)}O guardian cherub,
    from the midst of the stones of fire.
^17 (AL)Your heart was proud because of ^(AM)your beauty;
    you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendour.
I cast you to the ground;
    I exposed you before kings,
    to feast their eyes on you.
¹⁸ By the multitude of your iniquities,
    in the unrighteousness of your trade
    you profaned your sanctuaries;
so ^(AN)I brought fire out from your midst;
    it consumed you,
and I turned you to ashes on the earth
    ^(AO)in the sight of all who saw you.
¹⁹ All who know you among the peoples
    are appalled at you;
^(AP)you have come to a dreadful end
    and shall be no more for ever.”

“Behold, ^(AU)I am against you, O Sidon,
    and ^(AV)I will manifest my glory in your midst.
And ^(AW)they shall know that I am the Lord
    ^(AX)when I execute judgements in her
    and ^(AY)manifest my holiness in her;
²³ for I will send ^(AZ)pestilence into her,
    and blood into her streets;
and the slain shall fall in her midst,
    by the sword that is against her on every side.
Then they will know that I am the Lord.

^(A)“For three transgressions of ^(B)Tyre,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,
    and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
¹⁰ So I will send a fire upon the wall of ^(C)Tyre,
    and it shall devour her strongholds.”