1. The Lord’s word came to me:
2. You, human one, sing a lament for Tyre.
3. Say this about Tyre, who sits enthroned at the entrance to the sea, the people’s agent for trade throughout the coastlands. The Lord God proclaims:Tyre, you say,"I’m perfectly beautiful!"
4. But your territory is in the depths of the sea,and it’s your builders who made you beautiful.
5. For you they made your deck of cypress from Senir.To make your mast, they took cedar from Lebanon.
6. For your oars, they used the oaks of Bashan.They made your hull, inlaid with ivory, of boxwood from the coasts of Cyprus.