4. Be ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea has spoken,even the stronghold of the sea, saying,“I have not travailed nor brought forth children;neither have I brought up young men nor raised virgins.”
5. When the report reaches Egypt,they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
6. Pass over to Tarshish;wail, O inhabitants of the coastland.
7. Is this your joyous city,whose origin is from ancient days,whose feet used to carry herto sojourn in distant locations?
8. Who has planned this against Tyre,the crowning city,whose merchants are princes,whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?
9. The Lord of Hosts has purposed it,to stain the pride of all gloryand to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
10. Pass through your land as the Nile,O daughter of Tarshish;there is no more restraint.
11. He stretched out His hand over the sea,He shook the kingdoms;the Lord has given a command against the merchant city,to destroy its strongholds.
12. He said: You shall rejoice no more,O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Cyprus;there also you shall have no rest.
13. Look at the land of the Chaldeans;this was a people who was not;Assyria founded itfor those who dwell in the wilderness.They set up their siege towers,they stripped its palaces,and brought it to ruin.
14. Wail, O ships of Tarshish,for your stronghold is laid waste.