⁴ Be ashamed, O ^(A)Sidon, for the sea has spoken,
    the stronghold of the sea, saying:
“I have neither labored nor given birth,
    I have neither reared young men
    nor brought up young women.”

²³ and the light of a lamp
    will shine in you no more,
and ^(A)the voice of bridegroom and bride
    will be heard in you no more,
for ^(B)your merchants were the great ones of the earth,
    and all nations were deceived ^(C)by your sorcery.

¹¹ Ephraim's ^(A)glory shall fly away like a bird—
    ^(B)no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
^12 (C)Even if they bring up children,
    I will bereave them till none is left.
^(D)Woe to them
    when ^(E)I depart from them!
¹³ Ephraim, ^(F)as I have seen, was like a young palm^[a] planted in a meadow;
    but ^(G)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.^[b]
14 Give them, O Lord—
    what will you give?
Give them ^(H)a miscarrying womb
    and dry breasts.

³ At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions,
    ^(A)at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels,
the fathers ^(B)look not back to their children,
    so feeble are their hands,
⁴ because of the day that is coming to destroy
    all ^(C)the Philistines,
to cut off from ^(D)Tyre and Sidon
    every helper that remains.
For the Lord is destroying the Philistines,
    ^(E)the remnant of the coastland of ^(F)Caphtor.