“O Tyre, you have said,

‘I am ^xperfect in beauty.’

4  Your borders are ^yin the heart of the seas;

your builders made perfect your beauty.

5  They made all your planks

of fir trees from ^zSenir;

they took ^aa cedar from Lebanon

to make a mast for you.

6  Of ^boaks of Bashan

they made your oars;

they made your deck of pines

from ^cthe coasts of Cyprus,

inlaid with ivory.

7  ^dOf fine embroidered linen from Egypt

was your sail,

serving as your banner;

blue and purple from ^cthe coasts of Elishah

was your awning.

8  The inhabitants of Sidon and ^eArvad

were your rowers;

your skilled men, O Tyre, were in you;

they were ^fyour pilots.

9  The elders of ^gGebal and her skilled men were in you,

^hcaulking your seams;

all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you

to barter for your wares.

26  “Your rowers have brought you out

into the high seas.

^pThe east wind has wrecked you

in the heart of the seas.

27  Your riches, your wares, your merchandise,

your mariners and ^qyour pilots,

^ryour caulkers, your dealers in merchandise,

and all your men of war who are in you,

with all your crew

that is in your midst,

sink into the heart of the seas

^son the day of your fall.

28  At the sound of the cry of your pilots

^tthe countryside shakes,

29  and down from their ships

^ucome all who handle the oar.

The mariners and all the pilots of the sea

stand on the land

30  ^uand shout aloud over you

and cry out bitterly.

^vThey cast dust on their heads

^wand wallow in ashes;

31  they ^xmake themselves bald for you

and put sackcloth on their waist,

and they weep over you in bitterness of soul,

with bitter mourning.

32  In their wailing they ^yraise a lamentation for you

and lament over you:

^z‘Who is like Tyre,

like one destroyed in the midst of the sea?

33  When your wares came from the seas,

^ayou satisfied many peoples;

with your abundant wealth and merchandise

^ayou enriched the kings of the earth.

34  Now ^byou are wrecked by the seas,

in the depths of the waters;

your merchandise and all your crew in your midst

have sunk with you.

35  ^cAll the inhabitants of the coastlands

are appalled at you,

and ^dthe hair of their kings bristles with horror;

their faces are convulsed.

36  ^eThe merchants among the peoples ^fhiss at you;

^gyou have come to a dreadful end

and shall be no more forever.’”

^j“Because your heart is proud,

and ^kyou have said, ‘I am a god,

I sit in the seat of the gods,

in the heart of the seas,’

yet ^lyou are but a man, and no god,

^mthough you make your heart like the heart of a god—

3  ⁿyou are indeed wiser ^othan ^pDaniel;

no secret is hidden from you;

4  by your wisdom and your understanding

^qyou have made wealth for yourself,

and have gathered gold and silver

into your treasuries;

5  by your great wisdom in your trade

you have increased your wealth,

and ^jyour heart has become proud in your wealth—

6  therefore thus says the Lord God:

^rBecause you make your heart

like the heart of a god,

7  therefore, behold, I will bring ^sforeigners upon you,

the most ruthless of the nations;

and they shall draw their swords against ^tthe beauty of your wisdom

and defile ^tyour splendor.

8  ^uThey shall thrust you down into the pit,

^vand you shall die the death of the slain

in the heart of the seas.

9  ^wWill you still say, ‘I am a god,’

in the presence of those who kill you,

though ^lyou are but a man, and no god,

in the hands of those who slay you?

10  ^xYou shall die the death of the uncircumcised

by the hand of foreigners;

^yfor I have spoken, declares the Lord God.”

“You were the signet of perfection,¹

^cfull of wisdom and ^dperfect in beauty.

13  You were in ^eEden, the garden of God;

^fevery precious stone was your covering,

^gsardius, topaz, and diamond,

beryl, onyx, and jasper,

sapphire,^{2 f}emerald, and carbuncle;

and crafted in gold were your settings

and your engravings.³

ⁱOn the day that you were created

they were prepared.

14  You were an anointed ^jguardian cherub.

I placed you;⁴ you were on ^kthe holy mountain of God;

in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.

15  You were blameless in your ways

^lfrom the day you were created,

till unrighteousness was found in you.

16  In the abundance of ^myour trade

you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned;

so I cast you as a profane thing from ^kthe mountain of God,

and I destroyed you,^{5 j}O guardian cherub,

from the midst of the stones of fire.

17  ⁿYour heart was proud because of ^oyour beauty;

you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor.

I cast you to the ground;

I exposed you before kings,

to feast their eyes on you.

18  By the multitude of your iniquities,

in the unrighteousness of your trade

you profaned your sanctuaries;

so ^pI brought fire out from your midst;

it consumed you,

and I turned you to ashes on the earth

^qin the sight of all who saw you.

19  All who know you among the peoples

are appalled at you;

^ryou have come to a dreadful end

and shall be no more forever.”

“Behold, ^vI am against you, O Sidon,

and ^wI will manifest my glory in your midst.

And ^xthey shall know that I am the Lord

^ywhen I execute judgments in her

and ^zmanifest my holiness in her;

23  for I will send ^apestilence into her,

and blood into her streets;

and the slain shall fall in her midst,

by the sword that is against her on every side.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

^o“Behold, I am against you,

Pharaoh king of Egypt,

^pthe great dragon that lies

in the midst of his streams,

^qthat says, ‘My Nile is my own;

I made it for myself.’

4  I will ^rput hooks in your jaws,

and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales;

and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams,

with all the fish of your streams

that stick to your scales.

5  ^sAnd I will cast you out into the wilderness,

you and all the fish of your streams;

you shall fall ^ton the open field,

and ^unot be brought together or gathered.

To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens

^sI give you as food.

^w“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

3  ^wFor the day is near,

^xthe day of the Lord is near;

it will be ^ya day of clouds,

a time of doom for¹ the nations.

4  ^zA sword shall come upon Egypt,

^aand anguish shall be in ^bCush,

when the slain fall in Egypt,

and ^cher wealth² is carried away,

and ^dher foundations are torn down.

6  “Thus says the Lord:

^gThose who support Egypt shall fall,

and ^hher proud might shall come down;

ⁱfrom Migdol to Syene

they shall fall within her by the sword,

declares the Lord God.

7  ^jAnd they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries,

and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.

8  ^kThen they will know that I am the Lord,

when ^lI have set fire to Egypt,

and ^gall her helpers are broken.

ⁿ“I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt,

by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

11  He and his people with him, ^othe most ruthless of nations,

shall be brought in to destroy the land,

^zand they shall draw their swords against Egypt

and fill the land with the slain.

12  And ^pI will ^qdry up the Nile

and will sell the land into the hand of ^revildoers;

^sI will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it,

by the hand of ^tforeigners;

^uI am the Lord; I have spoken.

^v“I will destroy the idols

and put an end to the images in ^wMemphis;

^xthere shall no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;

so ^yI will put fear in the land of Egypt.

14  I will make ^zPathros a desolation

and will set fire to ^aZoan

^band will execute judgments on ^cThebes.

15  And I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium,

the stronghold of Egypt,

and cut off the multitude⁶ of Thebes.

16  And I will set fire to Egypt;

Pelusium shall be in great agony;

Thebes shall be breached,

and ^wMemphis shall face enemies⁷ by day.

17  The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword,

and the women⁸ shall go into captivity.

18  At ^dTehaphnehes ^ethe day shall be dark,

when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt,

and ^fher proud might shall come to an end in her;

she shall be covered by a cloud,

and her daughters shall go into captivity.

19  Thus ^gI will execute judgments on Egypt.

^hThen they will know that I am the Lord.”

^w“Whom are you like in your greatness?

3  Behold, ^xAssyria was a ^ycedar in ^zLebanon,

with beautiful branches and ^aforest shade,

^band of towering height,

its top among the clouds.¹

4  The waters nourished it;

the deep made it grow tall,

making ^cits rivers flow

around the place of its planting,

sending forth its streams

to all the trees of the field.

5  So ^dit towered high

above all the trees of the field;

its boughs grew large

and its branches long

from ^eabundant water in its shoots.

6  ^fAll the birds of the heavens

made their nests in its boughs;

under its branches all the beasts of the field

gave birth to their young,

and under its shadow

lived all great nations.

7  It was ^gbeautiful in its greatness,

in the length of its branches;

^efor its roots went down

to abundant waters.

8  ^hThe cedars ⁱin the garden of God could not rival it,

nor the fir trees equal its boughs;

neither were the plane trees

like its branches;

no tree ⁱin the garden of God

was its equal in beauty.