Ezekiel 27:25–36

²⁵The ships of Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise.

“So you were filled and heavily laden

in the heart of the seas.

²⁶Your rowers have brought you out

into the high seas.

The east wind has wrecked you

in the heart of the seas.

²⁷Your riches, your wares, your merchandise,

your mariners and your pilots,

your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise,

and all your men of war who are in you,

with all your company

that is in your midst,

sink into the heart of the seas

on the day of your ruin.

²⁸At the sound of the cry of your pilots

the countryside shakes,

²⁹and down from their ships

come all that handle the oar.

The mariners and all the pilots of the sea

stand on the shore

³⁰and wail aloud over you,

and cry bitterly.

They cast dust on their heads

and wallow in ashes;

³¹they make themselves bald for you,

and gird themselves with sackcloth,

and they weep over you in bitterness of soul,

with bitter mourning.

³²In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you,

and lament over you:

‘Who was ever destroyed like Tyre

in the midst of the sea?

³³When your wares came from the seas,

you satisfied many peoples;

with your abundant wealth and merchandise

you enriched the kings of the earth.

³⁴Now you are wrecked by the seas,

in the depths of the waters;

your merchandise and all your crew

have sunk with you.

³⁵All the inhabitants of the coastlands

are appalled at you;

and their kings are horribly afraid,

their faces are convulsed.

³⁶The merchants among the peoples hiss at you;

you have come to a dreadful end

and shall be no more for ever.’ ”