1<\/sup>And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre:<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect beauty,<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty:<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>With fir trees of Sanir they have built thee with all sea planks: they have taken cedars from Libanus to make thee masts.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they have made thee benches of Indian ivory and cabins with things brought from the islands of Italy.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made thy covering.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy rowers : thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy ornament.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>The men of Arad were with thy army upon thy walls round about: the Pygmeans also that were in thy towers, hung up their quivers on thy walls round about: they perfected thy beauty.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants: they brought to thy people slaves and vessels of brass.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>From the house of Thogorma they brought horses, and horsemen, and mules to thy market.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>The men of Dedan were thy merchants: many islands were the traffic of thy hand, they exchanged for thy price teeth of ivory and ebony.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>The Syrian was thy merchant: by reason of the multitude of thy works, they set forth precious stones, and purple, and broidered works, and fine linen, and silk, and chodchod in thy market.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>Juda and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants with the best corn: they set forth balm, and honey, and oil, and rosin in thy fairs.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>The men of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of thy works, in the multitude of divers riches, in rich wine, in wool of the best colour.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>The men of Dedan were thy merchants in tapestry for seats.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar, they were the merchants of thy hand: thy merchants came to thee with lambs, and rants, and kids.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>The sellers of Saba, and Reema, they were thy merchants: with all the best spices, and precious stones, and gold, which they set forth in thy market.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy merchants; Saba, Assur, and Chelmad sold to thee.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>They were thy merchants in divers manners, with bales of blue cloth, and of embroidered work, and of precious riches, which were wrapped up and bound with cords: they had cedars also in thy merchandise.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise : and thou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind hath broken thee in the heart of the sea.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy manifold furniture, thy mariners, and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and were chief over thy people: thy men of war also, that were in thee, with all thy multitude that is in the midst of thee: shall fall in the heart of the sea in the day of thy ruin.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>Thy fleets shall be troubled at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>And all that handled the oar shall come down from their ships: the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea shall stand upon the land:<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>And they shall mourn over thee with a loud voice, and shall cry bitterly: and they shall cast up dust upon their heads, and shall be sprinkled with ashes.<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>And they shall shave themselves bald for thee, and shall be girded with haircloth: and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of soul, with most bitter weeping.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>And they shall take up a mournful song for thee, and snail lament thee: What city is like Tyre, which is become silent in the midst of the sea?<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>Which by thy merchandise that went from thee by sea didst fill many people: which by the multitude of thy riches, and of thy people didst enrich the kings of the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 34<\/sup>Now thou art destroyed by the sea, thy riches are in the bottom of the waters, and all the multitude that was in the midst of thee is fallen.<\/span> <\/p>\n 35<\/sup>All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at thee: and all their kings being struck with the storm have changed their countenance.<\/span> <\/p>\n 36<\/sup>The merchants of people have hissed at thee: thou art brought to nothing, and thou shalt never be any more.<\/span> <\/p>\n