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Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me saying,

"And you, son of man, ^(a)take up a lamentation over Tyre;

and say to Tyre, ^(b)who dwells at the ^[a]entrance to the sea, ^(c)merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, ‘Thus says the Lord ^[b] God , "O Tyre, you have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.'

"Your borders are in the heart of the seas; Your builders have perfected your beauty.

"They have ^[c]made all your planks of fir trees from ^(d)Senir; They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

"Of ^(e)oaks from ^(f)Bashan they have made your oars; With ivory they have ^[d]inlaid your deck of boxwood from the coastlands of ^(g)Cyprus.

"Your sail was of fine embroidered linen from Egypt So that it became your ^[e]distinguishing mark; Your ^[f]awning was ^[g](h)blue and purple from the coastlands of ⁽ⁱ⁾Elishah.

"The inhabitants of Sidon and ^(j)Arvad were your rowers; Your ^(k)wise men, O Tyre, were ^[h]aboard; they were your pilots.

"The elders of ^(l)Gebal and her wise men were with you repairing your seams; All the ships of the sea and their sailors were with you in order to deal in your merchandise.

"^(m)Persia and ⁽ⁿ⁾Lud and ^(o)Put were in your army, your men of war. They hung shield and helmet in you; they set forth your splendor.

The sons of Arvad and your army were on your walls, all around, and the ^[i]Gammadim were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.

"Tarshish was your customer because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; with silver, iron, tin and lead they paid for your wares.

^(p)Javan, ^(q)Tubal and ^(r)Meshech, they were your traders; with the ^(s)lives of men and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise.

Those from ^(t)Beth-togarmah gave horses and war horses and mules for your wares.

The sons of ^(u)Dedan were your traders. Many coastlands were ^[j]your market; ^(v)ivory tusks and ebony they brought as your payment.

^(w)Aram was your customer because of the abundance of your ^[k]goods; they paid for your wares with ^(x)emeralds, purple, ^(y)embroidered work, fine linen, coral and rubies.

Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders; with the wheat of ^(z)Minnith, ^[l]cakes, honey, oil and balm they paid for your merchandise.

^(aa)Damascus was your customer because of the abundance of your ^[m]goods, because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth, because of the wine of Helbon and white wool.

Vedan and Javan paid for your wares ^[n]from Uzal; wrought iron, cassia and ^[o]sweet cane were among your merchandise.

^(ab)Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.

^(ac)Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they were ^[p]your customers for ^(ad)lambs, rams and goats; for these they were your customers.

The traders of ^(ae)Sheba and Raamah, they traded with you; they paid for your wares with the best of all kinds of ^(af)spices, and with all kinds of precious stones and gold.

Haran, Canneh, ^(ag)Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad traded with you.

They traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of ^[q]blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of many colors and tightly wound cords, which were among your merchandise.

The ^(ah)ships of Tarshish were ^[r]the carriers for your merchandise. And you were filled and were very ^[s]glorious In the heart of the seas.

"Your rowers have brought you Into ^(ai)great waters; The ^(aj)east wind has broken you In the heart of the seas.

"Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise, Your sailors and your pilots, Your repairers of seams, your dealers in merchandise And all your men of war who are in you, With all your company that is in your midst, Will fall into the heart of the seas On the day of your overthrow.

"At the sound of the cry of your pilots The pasture lands will ^(ak)shake.

"All who handle the oar, The ^(al)sailors and all the pilots of the sea Will come down from their ships; They will stand on the land,

And they will ^(am)make their voice heard over you And will cry bitterly. They will ^(an)cast dust on their heads, They will ^(ao)wallow in ashes.

"Also they will make themselves ^(ap)bald for you And ^(aq)gird themselves with sackcloth; And they will ^(ar)weep for you in bitterness of soul With bitter mourning.

"Moreover, in their wailing they will take up a ^(as)lamentation for you And lament over you: ‘Who is like Tyre, Like her who is silent in the midst of the sea?

‘When your wares went out from the seas, You satisfied many peoples; With the ^(at)abundance of your wealth and your merchandise You enriched the kings of earth.

‘^[t]Now that you are ^(au)broken by the seas In the depths of the waters, Your ^(av)merchandise and all your company Have fallen in the midst of you.

‘All the ^(aw)inhabitants of the coastlands Are appalled at you, And their kings are horribly afraid; They are troubled in countenance.

‘The merchants among the peoples ^(ax)hiss at you; You have become ^[u]terrified And you ^(ay)will cease to be forever.'"'"

The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,

"Son of man, say to the ^[a]leader of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord ^[b] God , "Because your heart is lifted up And you have said, ‘^(a)I am a god, I sit in the seat of ^[c]gods In the heart of the seas'; Yet you are a ^(b)man and not God, Although you make your heart like the heart of God—

Behold, you are wiser than ^(c)Daniel; There is no secret that is a match for you.

"By your wisdom and understanding You have acquired ^(d)riches for yourself And have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.

"By your great wisdom, by your ^(e)trade You have increased your riches And your ^(f)heart is lifted up because of your riches—

Therefore thus says the Lord God , ‘Because you have ^(g)made your heart Like the heart of God,

Therefore, behold, I will bring ^(h)strangers upon you, The ⁽ⁱ⁾most ruthless of the nations. And they will draw their swords Against the beauty of your wisdom And defile your splendor.

‘They will bring you down to the pit, And you will die the ^(j)death of those who are slain In the heart of the seas.

‘Will you still say, "I am a god," In the presence of your slayer, Though you are a man and not God, In the hands of those who wound you?

‘You will die the death of the ^(k)uncircumcised By the hand of strangers, For I have spoken!' declares the Lord God !"'"

Again the word of the Lord came to me saying,

"Son of man, ^(l)take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God , "You ^[d]had the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

"You were in ^(m)Eden, the garden of God; ⁽ⁿ⁾Every precious stone was your covering: The ^(o)ruby, the topaz and the diamond; The beryl, the onyx and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the turquoise and the emerald; And the gold, the workmanship of your ^[e](p)settings and ^[f]sockets, Was in you. On the day that you were created They were prepared.

"You were the ^(q)anointed cherub who ^[g]covers, And I placed you there. You were on the holy ^(r)mountain of God; You walked in the midst of the ^(s)stones of fire.

"You were ^(t)blameless in your ways From the day you were created Until ^(u)unrighteousness was found in you.

"By the ^(v)abundance of your trade ^[h]You were internally ^(w)filled with violence, And you sinned; Therefore I have cast you as profane From the mountain of God. And I have destroyed you, O ^[i]covering cherub, From the midst of the stones of fire.

"Your heart was lifted up because of your ^(x)beauty; You ^(y)corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I put you before ^(z)kings, That they may see you.

"By the multitude of your iniquities, In the unrighteousness of your trade You profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought ^(aa)fire from the midst of you; It has consumed you, And I have turned you to ^(ab)ashes on the earth In the eyes of all who see you.

"All who know you among the peoples Are appalled at you; You have become ^[j](ac)terrified And you will cease to be ^(ad)forever."'"

And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

"Son of man, ^(ae)set your face toward ^(af)Sidon, prophesy against her

and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God , "Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, And I will ^[k]be glorified in your midst. Then they will know that I am the Lord when I ^(ag)execute judgments in her, And I will manifest My holiness in her.

"For ^(ah)I will send pestilence to her And blood to her streets, And the ^(ai)wounded will ^[l]fall in her midst By the sword upon her on every side; Then they will know that I am the Lord .

And there will be no more for the house of Israel a ^(aj)prickling brier or a painful thorn from any round about them who scorned them; then they will know that I am the Lord God ."

‘Thus says the Lord God , "When I ^(ak)gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and will manifest My holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they will ^(al)live in their ^[m]land which I gave to My servant Jacob.

They will ^(am)live in it securely; and they will ^(an)build houses, plant vineyards and live securely when I ^(ao)execute judgments upon all who scorn them round about them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God."'"

In the ^(a)tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying,

"Son of man, set your face against ^(b)Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all ^(c)Egypt.

Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord ^[a] God , "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, The great ^[b](d)monster that lies in the midst of his ^[c]rivers, That ^(e)has said, ‘My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.'

"I will put ^(f)hooks in your jaws And make the fish of your ^[d]rivers cling to your scales. And I will bring you up out of the midst of your ^[e]rivers, And all the fish of your ^[f]rivers will cling to your scales.

"I will ^(g)abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your ^[g]rivers; You will fall on the ^[h]open field; you will not be brought together or ^[i](h)gathered. I have given you for ⁽ⁱ⁾food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

"Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the Lord , Because they have been only a ^(j)staff made of reed to the house of Israel.

"When they took hold of you with the hand, You ^(k)broke and tore all their ^[j]hands; And when they leaned on you, You broke and made all their loins ^[k]quake."

‘Therefore thus says the Lord God , "Behold, I will ^(l)bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast.

The ^(m)land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord . Because ^[l]you ⁽ⁿ⁾said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it,'

therefore, behold, I am ^(o)against you and against your ^[m]rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of ^[n]Ethiopia.

A man's foot will ^(p)not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the ^(q)midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will ^(r)scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands."

‘For thus says the Lord God , "At the end of forty years I will ^(s)gather the Egyptians from the peoples ^[o]among whom they were scattered.

I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of ^(t)Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom.

It will be the ^(u)lowest of the kingdoms, and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will not ^(v)rule over the nations.

And it will never again be the ^(w)confidence of the house of Israel, ^[p](x)bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned ^[q]to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God ."'"

Now in the ^(y)twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying,

"Son of man, ^(z)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor ^[r]hard against Tyre; every head was made ^(aa)bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had ^[s]performed against it."

Therefore thus says the Lord God , "Behold, I ^(ab)will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her ^[t](ac)wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his army.

I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor which he ^[u](ad)performed, because they acted for Me," declares the Lord God .

"On that day I will make a ^(ae)horn sprout for the house of Israel, and I will ^[v](af)open your mouth in their midst. Then they will know that I am the Lord ."