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| [1]THE WORD CONCERNING TYRE. |
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| [2]To whom are the dwellers in the island become like, the merchants of Phoenice, passing over the sea |
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| [3]in great waters, a generation of merchants? as when the harvest is gathered in, so are these traders with the nations. |
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| [4]Be ashamed, O Sidon: the sea has said, yea, the strength of the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins. |
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| [5]Moreover when it shall be heard in Egypt, sorrow shall seize them for Tyre. |
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| [6]Depart ye to Carthage; howl, ye that dwell in this island. |
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| [7]Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up? |
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| [8]Who has devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth. |
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| [9]The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth. |
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| [10]Till thy land; for ships no more come out of Carthage. |
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| [11]And thy hand prevails no more by sea, which troubled kings: the Lord of hosts has given a command concerning Chanaan, to destroy the strength thereof. |
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| [12]And men shall say, Ye shall no longer at all continue to insult and injure the daughter of Sidon: and if thou depart to the Citians, neither there shalt thou have rest. |
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| [13]And if thou depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen. |
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| [14]Howl, ye ships of Carthage: for your strong hold is destroyed. |
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| [15]And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot. |
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| [16]Take a harp, go about, O city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. |
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| [17]And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, that God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. |
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| [18]And her trade and her gain shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be gathered for them, but for those that dwell before the Lord, even all her trade, to eat and drink and be filled, and for a covenant and a memorial before the Lord. |
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