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Damascus traded with you for your abundant goods—because of your great wealth of every kind—wine of Helbon, and white wool.

Vedan and Javan from Uzal entered into trade for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were bartered for your merchandise.

Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; they exchanged for your wares the best of all kinds of spices, and all precious stones, and gold.

The ships of Tarshish traveled for you in your trade. So you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas.

they make themselves bald for you, and put on sackcloth, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.

In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you, and lament over you: "Who was ever destroyed like Tyre in the midst of the sea?

by your wisdom and your understanding you have amassed wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries.

You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, says the Lord God .

Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.

for I will send pestilence into it, and bloodshed into its streets; and the dead shall fall in its midst, by the sword that is against it on every side. And they shall know that I am the Lord .

speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God : I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon sprawling in the midst of its channels, saying, "My Nile is my own; I made it for myself."

The Egyptians shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel; they will recall their iniquity, when they turned to them for aid. Then they shall know that I am the Lord God .

Mortal, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare; yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had expended against it.

Therefore thus says the Lord God : I will give the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army.

I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he labored, because they worked for me, says the Lord God .

On that day I will cause a horn to sprout up for the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord .

Mortal, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God : Wail, "Alas for the day!"

For a day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

On that day, messengers shall go out from me in ships to terrify the unsuspecting Ethiopians; and anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt's doom; for it is coming!