Enki's Threats Against Tyrus
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1-2 [To Ezekiel] Son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus.
3} Say to Tyrus:
O you are situated at the entry of the sea. You are a merchant of the people for many isles. Enki says:
O Tyrus, you had said that I am of perfect beauty. 4} Your borders are in the midst of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty.
5} They have made all your ship boards of fir trees of Senir. They have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you.
6} Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars. The company of the Ashurites have made your benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
7} Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which you spread forth as your sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered you.
8} The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were your mariners.
Your wise men in you were your pilots.
9} The ancients of Gebal and its wise men were in you your calkers.
All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to occupy your merchandise.
10} They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in your army. They hanged the shield and helmet in you.
They set forth your comeliness. 11} The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls round about.
The Gammadims were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls round about. They have made your beauty perfect.
12} Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches. With silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in your fairs.
13} Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants. They traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in your market.
14} They of the house of Togarmah traded in your fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
15} The men of Dedan were your merchants. Many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought you [for] a present horns of ivory and ebony.
16} Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of your making. They occupied in your fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
17} Judah, and the land of Israel were your merchants. They traded in your market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
18} Damascus was your merchant in the multitude of the wares of your making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
19} Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in your fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in your market.
20} Dedan was your merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
21} Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with you in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they your merchants.
22} The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were yours. They occupied in your fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
23} Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were] your merchants.
24} These [were] your merchants in all sorts [of things,] in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
25} The ships of Tarshish did sing of you in your market. You were replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
26} Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind hath broken you in the midst of the seas.
27} your riches, and your fairs, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your calkers, and the occupiers of your merchandise, and all your men of war, that are in you, and in all your company which [is] in the midst of you, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of your ruin.
28} The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots.
29} All that handle the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land.
30} And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
31} And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart [and] bitter wailing.
32} In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, [saying,] What [city is] like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? 33} When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filledst many people; you didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise. 34} In the time [when] you shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters your merchandise and all your company in the midst of you shall fall.
35} All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at you, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in [their] countenance. 36} The merchants among the people shall hiss at you; you [shalt be] a terror, and never shalt be any more.