24. They traded with you choice garments, purple clothes and embroidered work, and multicolored carpets, bound and reinforced with cords; these were among your merchandise.
25. The ships of Tarshish were the transports for your merchandise. “‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.
26. Your rowers have brought you into surging waters.The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.
27. Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains, your ship’s carpenters, your merchants, and all your fighting men within you, along with all your crew who are in you,will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.
28. At the sound of your captains’ cry the waves will surge;
29. They will descend from their ships – all who handle the oar, the sailors and all the sea captains – they will stand on the land.
30. They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;
31. they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth, and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning.
32. As they wail they will lament over you, chanting:“Who was like Tyre, like a tower in the midst of the sea?”