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You were like a great ship built of the finest cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

Wise old craftsmen from Gebal did the caulking. Ships from every land came with goods to barter for your trade.

"Tarshish sent merchants to buy your wares in exchange for silver, iron, tin, and lead.

"From Beth-togarmah came riding horses, chariot horses, and mules, all in exchange for your goods.

Judah and Israel traded for your wares, offering wheat from Minnith, figs, honey, olive oil, and balm.

Greeks from Uzal came to trade for your merchandise. Wrought iron, cassia, and fragrant calamus were bartered for your wares.

The Arabians and the princes of Kedar sent merchants to trade lambs and rams and male goats in exchange for your goods.

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah came with all kinds of spices, jewels, and gold in exchange for your wares.

They shave their heads in grief for you and dress themselves in burlap. They weep for you with bitter anguish and deep mourning.

The merchants among the nations shake their heads at the sight of you, for you have come to a horrible end and will exist no more.'"

With your wisdom and understanding you have amassed great wealth— gold and silver for your treasuries.

"Son of man, sing this funeral song for the king of Tyre. Give him this message from the Sovereign Lord : "You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and exquisite in beauty.

You were in Eden, the garden of God. Your clothing was adorned with every precious stone— red carnelian, pale-green peridot, white moonstone, blue-green beryl, onyx, green jasper, blue lapis lazuli, turquoise, and emerald— all beautifully crafted for you and set in the finest gold. They were given to you on the day you were created.

No longer will Israel's scornful neighbors prick and tear at her like briers and thorns. For then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord .

"This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The people of Israel will again live in their own land, the land I gave my servant Jacob. For I will gather them from the distant lands where I have scattered them. I will reveal to the nations of the world my holiness among my people.

Give them this message from the Sovereign Lord : "I am your enemy, O Pharaoh, king of Egypt— you great monster, lurking in the streams of the Nile. For you have said, ‘The Nile River is mine; I made it for myself.'

I will leave you and all your fish stranded in the wilderness to die. You will lie unburied on the open ground, for I have given you as food to the wild animals and birds.

All the people of Egypt will know that I am the Lord , for to Israel you were just a staff made of reeds.

For forty years not a soul will pass that way, neither people nor animals. It will be completely uninhabited.

I will make Egypt desolate, and it will be surrounded by other desolate nations. Its cities will be empty and desolate for forty years, surrounded by other ruined cities. I will scatter the Egyptians to distant lands.