CHAPTER 27

¹And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ²“And you, man, sound a lament for Tyre. ³And say to Tyre, which sits at the gateways to the sea, trader to peoples, to many coastlands, thus said the Master, the LORD:

                 Tyre, you said,

                     ‘I am perfect in beauty.’

                 ⁴In the heart of the seas are your borders.

                     Your builders perfected your beauty.

                 ⁵With cypress from Senir they built you—

                     all your panels.

                 Cedar from Lebanon they took

                     to make masts for you.

                 ⁶Of oak from Bashan they made your oars,

                     your planks they made of ivory

                         inlaid in boxwood from the coastlands of Kittim.

                 ⁷Embroidered linen from Egypt

                     were your sails

                         to be for you a banner.

                 Indigo and crimson from the isles of Elisha

                     were your canopy.

                 ⁸The dwellers of Sidon and Arvad

                     were rowers for you.

                 Your skilled men, O Tyre, were within you,

                     they were your mariners.

                 ⁹Gebal’s elders and skilled men

                     were within you repairing the crafts.

                 All the ships of the sea and their sailors

                     were within you to traffic in your wares.

                 ¹⁰Peras and Lud and Put

                     were in your forces, your men of war.

                 Buckler and helmet they hung in you,

                     it is they who gave your glory.

¹¹Men of Arvad and Helech were within your walls all around, and the Gammarites were on your towers. Their shields they hung on your walls all around, it is they who perfected your beauty. ¹²Tarshish traded with you. From all the great wealth of silver, tin, and lead, they deposited your goods. ¹³Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they traded with you in human beings and copper vessels; they gave your wares. ¹⁴From Beth-Targemah, horses and horsemen and mules, they deposited your goods. ¹⁵The men of Dedan traded with you, many coastlands were traders under you. Ivory tusks and ebony they gave back as your tribute. ¹⁶Aram traded with you and all the things you made in malachite, purple cloth and embroidery and linen and coral and agate they gave for your deposited goods. ¹⁷Judah and the land of Israel traded with you in the wheat of Minnith and Paggo, and honey and oil and balm they gave for your wares. ¹⁸Damascus traded with you in all the things you made, from all the great wealth of Helbon wine and white wood. ¹⁹Vedan and Javan of Uzal for your deposited goods gave forged iron, cassia, and cane. For your wares it was. ²⁰Dedan traded with you in saddle cloths for riding. ²¹Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were traders under you. Fat sheep and rams and he-goats of theirs were your trade. ²²The traders of Sheba and Raamah traded with you in the choicest of all spices and precious stones and gold, they gave for your deposited goods. ²³Haran and Canneh and Edom, the traders of Sheba, Assyria, and Cilmad traded with you. ²⁴They traded with you in fine raiment, in indigo robes and bright-colored rugs bound in cords and packed tight among your wares. ²⁵Tarshish ships were in the service of your trade.

                 And you were full and became greatly ladened

                     in the heart of the seas.

                 ²⁶Into many waters they brought you,

                     those rowing for you.

                 The east wind broke you

                     in the heart of the seas.

²⁷Your wealth and your deposited goods, your wares, your sailors, the repairers of your ships and the supervisors of your wares and all your men of war who were within you and all your assembly that was within you shall fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.

                 ²⁸At the sound of the scream of your mariners

                     the breakers shall toss.

                 ²⁹And they shall come down from their ships,

                     all who wield the oar,

                 sailors, all the sea’s mariners

                     shall stand on the ground.

                 ³⁰And they shall make their voices heard over you

                     and scream bitterly,

                 and put dust upon their heads,

                     in ashes they shall wallow.

                 ³¹And they shall shave their heads over you

                     and gird sackcloth

                 and keen over you most bitterly,

                     a bitter dirge.

                 ³²And their sons shall sound over you a lament

                     and lament over you:

                 Who is like Tyre for silence

                     within the sea?

³³When your deposited goods went out from the seas, you sated many peoples with your great wealth, and with your wares you enriched the kings of the earth.

                 ³⁴When you were broken on the seas,

                     into the waters’ depths your wares

                         and all your assembly within you fell.

                 ³⁵All the coastland dwellers

                     were shocked over you,

                 and their kings were horrified,

                     and their faces were contorted.

                 ³⁶Traders among the peoples

                     hissed over you.

                 You are become a horror,

                     and you exist no more, forever.”