² Be silent,^(A) you people of the island
    and you merchants^(B) of Sidon,^(C)
    whom the seafarers have enriched.
³ On the great waters
    came the grain of the Shihor;^(D)
the harvest of the Nile^[a](E) was the revenue of Tyre,^(F)
    and she became the marketplace of the nations.

⁴ Be ashamed, Sidon,^(G) and you fortress of the sea,
    for the sea has spoken:
“I have neither been in labor nor given birth;^(H)
    I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”