6. Send word now to Tarshish!Wail, you people who live in distant lands!
7. Is this silent ruin all that is left of your once joyous city?What a long history was yours!Think of all the colonists you sent to distant places.
8. Who has brought this disaster on Tyre,that great creator of kingdoms?Her traders were all princes,her merchants were nobles.
9. The lord of Heaven’s Armies has done itto destroy your prideand bring low all earth’s nobility.
10. Come, people of Tarshish,sweep over the land like the flooding Nile,for Tyre is defenseless.
11. The lord held out his hand over the seaand shook the kingdoms of the earth.He has spoken out against Phoenicia,ordering that her fortresses be destroyed.