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and wine from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were bartered for your merchandise.

Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.

The traders of Sheba and Ra'amah traded with you; they exchanged for your wares the best of all kinds of spices, and all precious stones, and gold.

The ships of Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise. "So you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas.

they make themselves bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.

In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you, and lament over you: 'Who was ever destroyed like Tyre in the midst of the sea?

The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more for ever.'"

by your wisdom and your understanding you have gotten wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;

You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, says the Lord GOD."

Your heart was proud because of your 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.

All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more for ever."

for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in the midst of her, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

"And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.

"For thus says the Lord GOD: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered;

And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD."

"Son of man, Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare; yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against it.

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army.

I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he labored, because they worked for me, says the Lord GOD.

"Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Wail, 'Alas for the day!'

For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.