9 The ^[a]burden of the word of Jehovah upon the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be its resting-place (for ^[b]the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Jehovah); ² and Hamath, also, which bordereth thereon; Tyre and Sidon, ^[c]because they are very wise. ³ And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. ⁴ Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will smite ^[d]her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. ⁵ Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also, and shall be sore pained; and Ekron, for her expectation shall be put to shame; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. ⁶ And ^[e]a bastard shall ^[f]dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

23 The ^[a]burden of Tyre.

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. ² Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. ³ And on great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mart of nations. ⁴ Be thou ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea hath spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins. ^5 [b]When the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. ⁶ Pass ye over to Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the coast. ⁷ Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is ^[c]of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?

⁸ Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? ⁹ Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to ^[d]stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. ^10 [e]Pass through thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no ^[f]restraint any more. ¹¹ He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given commandment concerning ^[g]Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof. ¹² And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shalt thou have no rest.

¹³ Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: ^[h]this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness; they set up ^[i]their towers; they ^[j]overthrew the palaces thereof; they made it a ruin. ¹⁴ Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste. ¹⁵ And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years ^[k]it shall be unto Tyre as in the song of the harlot. ¹⁶ Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. ¹⁷ And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. ¹⁸ And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat sufficiently, and for ^[l]durable clothing.

28 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying, ² Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the ^[a]midst of the seas; yet thou art man, and not God, though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God;— ³ behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from thee; ⁴ by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee ^[b]riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures; ⁵ by thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy ^[c]riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy ^[d]riches;— ⁶ therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God, ⁷ therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall ^[e]defile thy brightness. ⁸ They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the death of them that are slain, in the heart of the seas. ⁹ Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou art man, and not God, in the hand of him that ^[f]woundeth thee. ¹⁰ Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.