5. Like the report of Mitsrayim, they too are grieved at the report of Tsor.
6. Pass over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coastland!
7. Is this your city of revelry, whose antiquity is from days of old, whose feet carried her far off to sojourn?
8. Who has counselled this against Tsor, the crowning city, whose merchants are chiefs, whose traders are the esteemed of the earth?
9. יהוה of hosts has counselled it, to defile the pride of all splendour, and to shame all the esteemed of the earth.
10. Overflow through your land like the River, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no more strength.
11. He has stretched out His hand over the sea, He shook the reigns; יהוה has given a command against Kena‛an to destroy its strongholds.
12. And He said, “Never again shall you exult, O you oppressed maiden daughter of Tsiḏon. Arise, pass over to Kittim, even there you shall find no rest.”
13. See the land of the Chaldeans – this people did not exist. Ashshur founded it for wild beasts of the desert. They set up their siege-towers, they demolished her palaces, and made her a ruin.
14. Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!