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[1]THEWORD CONCERNING TYRE.
[2]Towhom are the dwellers in the island become like, the merchants of Phoenice, passing over the sea
[3]ingreat waters, a generation of merchants? as when the harvest is gathered in, so are these traders with the nations.
[4]Beashamed, O Sidon: the sea has said, yea, the strength of the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins.
[5]Moreoverwhen it shall be heard in Egypt, sorrow shall seize them for Tyre.
[6]Departye to Carthage; howl, ye that dwell in this island.
[7]Wasnot this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up?
[8]Whohas devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.
[9]TheLord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.
[10]Tillthy land; for ships no more come out of Carthage.
[11]Andthy hand prevails no more by sea, which troubled kings: the Lord of hosts has given a command concerning Chanaan, to destroy the strength thereof.
[12]Andmen shall say, Ye shall no longer at all continue to insult and injure the daughter of Sidon: and if thou depart to the Citians, neither there shalt thou have rest.
[13]Andif thou depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.
[14]Howl,ye ships of Carthage: for your strong hold is destroyed.
[15]Andit shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.
[16]Takea harp, go about, O city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
[17]Andit shall come to pass after the seventy years, that God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
[18]Andher trade and her gain shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be gathered for them, but for those that dwell before the Lord, even all her trade, to eat and drink and be filled, and for a covenant and a memorial before the Lord.
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