1. This is a message about Tyre.Howl with grief, you sailors out on the ocean! Your home port of Tyre has been destroyed; its houses and its harbour are in ruins. As your ships return from Cyprus, you learn the news.
2. Wail, you merchants of Sidon! You sent men
3. across the sea to buy and sell the corn that grew in Egypt and to do business with all the nations.
4. City of Sidon, you are disgraced! The sea and the great ocean depths disown you and say, “I never had any children. I never brought up sons or daughters.”