| 1 | And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: |
| 2 | Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre: |
| 3 | 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, |
| 4 | And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty: |
| 5 | With fir trees of Sanir they have built thee with all sea planks: they have taken cedars from Libanus to make thee masts. |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots. |
| 9 | 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. |
| 10 | 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. |
| 11 | 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. |
| 12 | The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead. |
| 13 | Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants: they brought to thy people slaves and vessels of brass. |
| 14 | From the house of Thogorma they brought horses, and horsemen, and mules to thy market. |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | 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. |
| 17 | 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. |
| 18 | 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. |
| 19 | Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market. |
| 20 | The men of Dedan were thy merchants in tapestry for seats. |
| 21 | Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar, they were the merchants of thy hand: thy merchants came to thee with lambs, and rams, and kids. |
| 22 | 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. |
| 23 | Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy merchants; Saba, Assur, and Chelmad sold to thee. |
| 24 | 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. |
| 25 | The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea. |
| 26 | Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind hath broken thee in the heart of the sea. |
| 27 | 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. |
| 28 | Thy fleets shall be troubled at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. |
| 29 | 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: |
| 30 | 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. |
| 31 | 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. |
| 32 | And they shall take up a mournful song for thee, and shall lament thee: What city is like Tyre, which is become silent in the midst of the sea? |
| 33 | 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. |
| 34 | 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. |
| 35 | All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at thee: and all their kings being struck with the storm have changed their countenance. |
| 36 | The merchants of people have hissed at thee: thou art brought to nothing, and thou shalt never be any more. |
