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Tarshish was your trader from the multitude of your wealth. With silver, iron, tin, and lead, they gave for your wares.

Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they were your merchants, they gave the souls of men and vessels of bronze for your goods.

From the house of Togarmah they gave horses and war horses and mules for your wares.

The sons of Dedan were your merchants, many coast lands were the traffic of your hand. Tusks of ivory and ebony they brought as your gift.

Syria was your trader from the multitude of your works; with jewels, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies they gave for your wares.

Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants; with wheat from Minnith and Pannag, and honey and oil and balm they gave for your goods.

Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar, they were traders of your land in lambs and rams and goats, in them was your trade.

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were your merchants; with the chief of all the spices, and with every precious stone and gold, they gave for your wares.

They were your merchants in perfect things, in violet cloth and embroidered work, and in carpets of many colors, with tightly bound cords, and cedars among your merchandise.

And all who handle the oar shall come down from their ships, the seamen, all the sailors of the sea. They shall stand on the land,

and will make heard their voice against you, and will cry bitterly, and will cause dust to go up on their heads; they will wallow in the ashes.

And they shall be bald for you and gird with sackcloth; and they shall weep for you with bitterness of soul, a bitter wailing.

And in their wailing they shall lift up a lamentation and lament over you, saying , Who is like Tyre, as one silenced in the midst of the sea?

behold, so I will bring on you awesome strangers of the nations. And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.

They will cause you to go down to the Pit, and you shall die the deaths of the slain in the heart of the seas.

You have been in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering; the ruby, the topaz, and the jasper, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the turquoise, and the carbuncle, and gold; the workmanship of your tambourines and of your flutes in you. In the day you were created, they were prepared.

By the multitude of your trade, they filled your midst with violence, and you sinned. So I cast you defiled from the height of God, and I destroyed you, O covering cherub, from among the stones of fire.

and say, So says the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will be glorified in your midst. And they shall know that I am Jehovah when I have done judgments in her and shall be sanctified by her.

And I will send a plague into her, and blood into her streets. And the slain will fall in her midst by the sword, on her from all around. And they shall know that I am Jehovah.

And there will not be a pricking brier or a painful thorn to the house of Israel any more from all who surround them, those who hate them. And they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.