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"Tarshish was your customer because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; with silver, iron, tin, and lead they paid for your wares.

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traders; with the lives of men and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise.

Those from Beth-togarmah gave horses and war horses and mules for your wares.

Aram was your customer because of the abundance of your goods; they paid for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies.

Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders; with the wheat of Minnith, cakes, honey, oil, and balm they paid for your merchandise.

Also Vedan and Javan paid for your wares from Uzal; wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were among your merchandise.

Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.

Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they were customers at your hand for lambs, rams, and goats; for these, they were your customers.

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

The ships of Tarshish were the carriers for your merchandise.And you were filled and were very gloriousIn the heart of the seas.

Also they will make themselves bald for youAnd gird themselves with sackcloth;And they will weep for you in bitterness of soulWith bitter mourning.

Moreover, in their wailing they will take up a lamentation for youAnd lament over you:‘Who is like Tyre,Like her who is silent in the midst of the sea?

Behold, you are wiser than Daniel;There is no secret that is a match for you.

By your wisdom and understandingYou have acquired wealth for yourselfAnd have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.

You will die the death of the uncircumcisedBy the hand of strangers,For I have spoken!' declares Lord Yahweh!"'"

For I will send pestilence to herAnd blood to her streets,And the wounded will fall in her midstBy the sword upon her on every side;Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

And there will be no more for the house of Israel a prickling brier or a painful thorn from any round about them who scorned them; then they will know that I am Lord Yahweh."

I will abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your canals of the Nile;You will fall on the open field; you will not be brought together or gathered.I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

‘For thus says Lord Yahweh, "At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.