17 For (A)in a single hour all this wealth (B)has been laid waste.”

And (C)all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off

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16 And (A)the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast (B)will hate the prostitute. They will make her (C)desolate and (D)naked, and (E)devour her flesh and (F)burn her up with fire,

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27 Your riches, your wares, your merchandise,
    your mariners and (A)your pilots,
(B)your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise,
    and all your men of war who are in you,
with all your crew
    that is in your midst,
sink into the heart of the seas
    (C)on the day of your fall.
28 At the sound of the cry of your pilots
    (D)the countryside shakes,
29 and down from their ships
    (E)come all who handle the oar.
The mariners and all the pilots of the sea
    stand on the land
30 (F)and shout aloud over you
    and cry out bitterly.
(G)They cast dust on their heads
    (H)and wallow in ashes;
31 they (I)make themselves bald for you
    and put sackcloth on their waist,
and they weep over you in bitterness of soul,
    with bitter mourning.
32 In their wailing they (J)raise a lamentation for you
    and lament over you:
(K)‘Who is like Tyre,
    like one destroyed in the midst of the sea?
33 When your wares came from the seas,
    (L)you satisfied many peoples;
with your abundant wealth and merchandise
    (M)you enriched the kings of the earth.
34 Now (N)you are wrecked by the seas,
    in the depths of the waters;
your merchandise and all your crew in your midst
    have sunk with you.
35 (O)All the inhabitants of the coastlands
    are appalled at you,
and (P)the hair of their kings bristles with horror;
    their faces are convulsed.
36 (Q)The merchants among the peoples (R)hiss at you;
    (S)you have come to a dreadful end
    and shall be no more forever.’”

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

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19 And they threw (A)dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out,

“Alas, alas, for the great city
    (B)where all who had ships at sea
    grew rich by her wealth!
For (C)in a single hour she has been laid waste.

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10 (A)They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,

“Alas! Alas! (B)You great city,
    you mighty city, Babylon!
For (C)in a single hour your judgment has come.”

11 And (D)the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore,

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So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, (A)call out to your god! (B)Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”

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(A)Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;
    (B)wail for her!
(C)Take balm for her pain;
    perhaps she may be healed.

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(A)For the chastisement[a] of the daughter of my people has been greater
    than the punishment[b] of Sodom,
(B)which was overthrown in a moment,
    and no hands were wrung for her.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:6 Or iniquity
  2. Lamentations 4:6 Or sin
  3. Lamentations 4:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

(A)These two things shall come to you
    in a moment, (B)in one day;
the loss of children and widowhood
    shall come upon you in full measure,
(C)in spite of your many sorceries
    and the great power of your enchantments.

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