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And they shall lift up a lament for you and say to you, How you are perished, who lived by the seas, the city well praised, which was strong in the sea, she and her dwellers, who put their terrors on all living in her!

For so says the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make you a ruined city, like the cities that do not have ones living in them, when I shall bring up on you the deep and great waters shall cover you.

And say to Tyre, Oh you who dwell at the entrances of the sea, a merchant of the peoples for many coast lands, so says the Lord Jehovah: O Tyre, you have said, I am perfect of beauty.

They have made for you all your planks of fir trees of Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, an ensign for you, violet and purple from the coasts, of Elishah was your covering.

Tarshish was your trader from the multitude of your wealth. With silver, iron, tin, and lead, they gave for your wares.

Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they were your merchants, they gave the souls of men and vessels of bronze for your goods.

From the house of Togarmah they gave horses and war horses and mules for your wares.

Syria was your trader from the multitude of your works; with jewels, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies they gave for your wares.

Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants; with wheat from Minnith and Pannag, and honey and oil and balm they gave for your goods.

And Dan and Javan going about gave for your wares; smooth iron, cassia, and cane were among your goods.

Dedan was your merchant in loose cloths for riding.

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were your merchants; with the chief of all the spices, and with every precious stone and gold, they gave for your wares.

And they shall be bald for you and gird with sackcloth; and they shall weep for you with bitterness of soul, a bitter wailing.

With your wisdom and with your understanding you have made riches for yourself, and have worked gold and silver into your treasuries.

You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised, by the hand of strangers. For I have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah.

By the host of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trade, you have defiled your holy places. So I brought a fire from your midst and it shall devour you, and I will give you for ashes on the earth in the sight of all who see you.

And I will leave you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You shall fall on the face of the field, you shall not be removed or gathered. I have given you to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the heavens for food.

And the land of Egypt shall become for a desolation and a waste, and they shall know that I am Jehovah, because he has said, The river is mine, and I have made it.

So, behold, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will give the land of Egypt for an utter waste and a desolation, from Migdol to Syene, even to the border of Ethiopia.