Ezekiel 27:25–36

²⁵“ ‘Trading ships

carried the things you sold.

You were like a ship full of heavy cargo

in the middle of the sea.

²⁶The men who rowed you

brought you out into the high seas,

but the east wind broke you to pieces

in the middle of the sea.

²⁷Your wealth, your trade, your goods,

your seamen, your sailors, your workers,

your traders, your warriors,

and everyone else on board

sank into the sea

on the day your ship was wrecked.

²⁸The people on the shore shake with fear

when your sailors cry out.

²⁹All the men who row

leave their ships;

the seamen and the sailors of other ships

stand on the shore.

³⁰They cry loudly about you;

they cry very much.

They throw dust on their heads

and roll in ashes to show they are sad.

³¹They shave their heads for you,

and they put on rough cloth to show they are upset.

They cry and sob for you;

they cry loudly.

³²And in their loud crying

they sing a funeral song for you:

“No one was ever destroyed like Tyre,

surrounded by the sea.”

³³When the goods you traded went out over the seas,

you met the needs of many nations.

With your great wealth and goods,

you made kings of the earth rich.

³⁴But now you are broken by the sea

and have sunk to the bottom.

Your goods and all the people on board

have gone down with you.

³⁵All those who live along the shore

are shocked by what happened to you.

Their kings are terribly afraid,

and their faces show their fear.

³⁶The traders among the nations hiss at you.

You have come to a terrible end,

and you are gone forever.’ ”