1. The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, For Tyre is destroyed, without house or harbor; It is reported to them from the land of Cyprus.
2. Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland, You merchants of Sidon; Your messengers crossed the sea
3. And were on many waters. The grain of the Nile, the harvest of the River was her revenue; And she was the market of nations.
4. Be ashamed, O Sidon; For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have neither travailed nor given birth, I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins."
5. When the report reaches Egypt, They will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.
6. Pass over to Tarshish; Wail, O inhabitants of the coastland.
7. Is this your jubilant city, Whose origin is from antiquity, Whose feet used to carry her to colonize distant places?
8. Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?