CLV(i)
1 LOAD OF TYRE Howl! Ships of Tharshish. For it is devastated of house and entry. They come no longer from the land of Kittim. A deportation has arrived also to them.
2 Be still! Dwellers of the coastland. The merchant of Sidon, passing over the sea, filled you,
3 and in many waters was the seed of the merchant. The harvest of the waterway was her income, and she became the mart of nations."
4 Be ashamed, Sidon! For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor have I borne, and not brought up choice men, nor raised virgins."
5 As the report progresses to Egypt, they will travail. As to the report of Tyre,
6 they pass it through toward Tharshish; they will howl! Dwellers of the coastland!
7 Was this your joy from the days aforetime? In antiquity her feet fetched her from afar to sojourn.
8 Who counseled this against Tyre, the crown giver, whose merchants were chiefs, her traffickers the glorious of the earth?
9 Yahweh of hosts counseled it, to violate the pomp of all stateliness, to make light of all the glorious of the earth."
10 Pass! Serve your land as a waterway, daughter of Tharshish. There is no use for ships any longer."
11 Your hand was stretched out over the sea; it disturbed the kingdoms. Yahweh of hosts instructs as to Canaan, to exterminate its strongholds."
12 And saying is He, "No longer shall you continue to be joyous, extorted virgin daughter of Sidon. To Kittim! Arise! Pass! Even there, there is no stopping for you."
13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans--this people became nothing. Assyria devastated it into arid regions. They raise lookouts. They denude citadels. They make into a fallen place. Even there, there is no stopping."
14 Howl! Ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is devastated!"
15 And it comes in that day, Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, as the days of one king. From the end of seventy years Tyre will become as a song of the prostitute."