³ Say to Tyre, dwelling at the entrance of the sea,
the merchant to the people of many coastlands,
thus says Adonai Elohim:
‘Tyre, you said: “I am perfect in beauty!’
⁴ Your borders are in the heart of the seas,
your builders perfected your beauty.
⁵ All your planks have been fashioned
from cypress trees of Senir.
They took a cedar from Lebanon
to make a mast for you.
⁶ They made your oars from Bashan’s oaks.
Of boxwood from the islands of Kittim
they made your decks, inlaid with ivory.
⁷ Fine Egyptian linen was your sail,
serving as a banner for you.
Your awning was blue and purple
from the coasts of Elishah.
⁸ The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers.
Your skilled men, Tyre, were on you
—they were your sailors.
⁹ The elders of Gebal and her experts were within you,
caulking your leaks.
All the ships of the sea with their sailors
were with you to trade for your wares.
¹⁰ Persia, Lud and Put were in your army,
our men of war.
They hung the shield and helmet in you;
they gave you splendor.
¹¹ Men of Arvad and Helech were all
around on your walls,
the Gammadim were in your towers.
They hung their shields all around on your walls.
They perfected your beauty.

“‘So you were filled and heavily loaded
in the heart of the seas.
²⁶ Your rowers have brought you
into great waters.
But the east wind will break you
in the heart of the seas.
²⁷ Your riches, your wares, your merchandise,
your sailors, your pilots, your caulkers,
the traders of your merchandise,
all your men of war that are in you,
with all your company in your midst
will fall into the heart of the seas
on the day of your downfall.
²⁸ At the sound of the cry of your pilots
the countryside will shake.
²⁹ All the oarsmen, the sailors
and all the mariners of the sea
will come down from their ships
to stand on the ground.
³⁰ They will raise their voices over you
and cry bitterly.
They will throw up dust on their heads.
They will roll themselves in ashes.
³¹ They will shave themselves bald for you
and put on sackcloth.
They will weep for you with bitter soul,
with bitter lament.
³² In their wailing they will take up a lament for you.
They will mourn over you:
“Who was like Tyre—
silenced in the midst of the sea?”
³³ When your merchandise came out from the seas,
you satisfied many people.
With the abundance of your wealth and your wares
you enriched the kings of the earth.
³⁴ Now you are shattered by the seas
in the depths of the waters.
Your merchandise and all your company
have fallen in your midst.
³⁵ All the inhabitants of the coastlands
are appalled at you.
Their kings are horribly afraid,
their faces are convulsed.
³⁶ The merchants among the people hiss at you.
You have become a horror
and will be no more.’”

‘So your heart is exalted
and you say, “I am a god!
I sit in the seat of the gods
in the heart of the seas!”
Yet you are human, not a god,
even if you set up your heart like the heart of a god.
³ See, you are wiser than Daniel!
No secret is hidden from you!
⁴ By your wisdom and by understanding
you have made wealth for yourself
and have gathered gold and silver
into your treasuries.
⁵ In your great skill, by your trade,
you have increased your wealth,
so your heart is exalted
by your wealth.’”
⁶ Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim:
“Because you have set up your heart
like the heart of God,
⁷ behold, I will bring strangers against you,
the ruthless of the nations.
They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.
They will defile your splendor.
⁸ They will bring you down to the Pit.
You will die the death of those slain
in the heart of the seas.
⁹ Will you still say, ‘I am a god’
before the one who slays you?
Yet you are man, and not a god,
in the hand of those who pierce you.
¹⁰ You will die the deaths of the uncircumcised
at the hand of strangers.
For I have spoken.”
It is a declaration of Adonai.

‘You were the seal of perfection,
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
¹³ You were in Eden, the garden of God.
Every precious stone was your covering
—ruby, topaz and diamond, beryl, onyx
and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and emerald—
your settings and your sockets a workmanship of gold
—in the day you were created they were prepared.
¹⁴ You were an anointed guardian cheruv.
I placed you on the holy mountain of God.
You walked among stones of fire.
¹⁵ You were perfect in your ways
from the day that you were created,
until unrighteousness was found in you.
¹⁶ By the abundance of your trade
they filled you within with violence.
So you have sinned.
So I threw you out as a profane thing
from the mountain of God.
I made you vanish, guardian cheruv,
from among the stones of fire.
¹⁷ Your heart was exalted because of your beauty.
You corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor.
I threw you down to the earth.^[b]
Before kings I set you up as a spectacle.

¹ Halleluyah! I praise Adonai with all my heart
in the company and congregation of the upright.
² Great are the works of Adonai—
searched out by all who delight in them.
³ Glorious and majestic is His work,
and His righteousness endures forever.
⁴ He made His wonders memorable.
Adonai is gracious and full of compassion.
⁵ He gives food to those who fear Him.
He remembers His covenant forever.
⁶ He shows His people His powerful deeds,
giving them the heritage of the nations.
⁷ The works of His hands are truth and justice.
All His precepts are trustworthy—
⁸ they are upheld forever and ever,
made in truth and uprightness.
⁹ He has sent redemption to His people.
He has ordained His covenant forever.
Holy and awesome is His Name.
¹⁰ The fear of Adonai is the beginning of wisdom.
All who follow His precepts have good understanding.
His praise endures forever!