Moffatt(i)
15 The traders in these wares, who made rich profits from her, will stand far off for fear of her torture, weeping and wailing:
16 'Woe and alas, for the great city, robed in linen, in purple and scarlet, her ornaments of gold, of jewels and pearl!
17 And all this splendour gone in one brief hour!' And all shipmasters and sea-faring folk, sailors and all whose business lies upon the sea, stood far off
18 as they watched the smoke of her burning, crying, 'What city was like the great City?'
19 They threw dust on their heads and cried, as they wept and wailed, 'Woe and alas for the great City, where all shipmen made rich profit by her treasures! Gone, gone in one brief hour!'