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¹ Here is a message about Tyre:
Wail, you large ships,
for the port is too devastated to enter!
From the land of Cyprus this news is announced to them.
² Lament, you residents of the coast,
you merchants of Sidon who travel over the sea,
whose agents sail over ³ the deep waters!
Grain from the Shihor region,
crops grown near the Nile she receives;
she is the trade center of the nations.
⁴ Be ashamed, O Sidon,
for the sea says this, O fortress of the sea:
"I have not gone into labor
or given birth;
I have not raised young men
or brought up young women."
⁵ When the news reaches Egypt,
they will be shaken by what has happened to Tyre.
⁶ Travel to Tarshish!
Wail, you residents of the coast!
⁷ Is this really your boisterous city
whose origins are in the distant past,
and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?
⁸ Who planned this for royal Tyre,
whose merchants are princes,
whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?
⁹ The Lord who commands armies planned it—
to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty,
to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.
¹⁰ Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile;
there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.
¹¹ The Lord stretched out his hand over the sea,
he shook kingdoms;
he gave the order
to destroy Canaan's fortresses.
¹² He said,
"You will no longer celebrate,
oppressed virgin daughter Sidon!
Get up, travel to Cyprus,
but you will find no relief there."
¹³ Look at the land of the Chaldeans,
these people who have lost their identity!
The Assyrians have made it a home for wild animals.
They erected their siege towers,
demolished its fortresses,
and turned it into a heap of ruins.
¹⁴ Wail, you large ships,
for your fortress is destroyed!

¹⁶ "Take the harp,
go through the city,
forgotten prostitute!
Play it well,
play lots of songs,
so you'll be noticed!"