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¹ The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, ² “Now, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre, ³ ‘I am perfect in beauty.’ ⁴ Your builders have perfected your beauty. ⁵ They took a cedar from Lebanon to make you a mast. ⁶ With ivory from the coasts of Cyprus. ⁷ Blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was what covered you. ⁸ They became your pilots. ⁹ To market your merchandise. ¹⁰ They gave splendor to you. ¹¹ They made your beauty perfect. ¹² “Tarshish was your merchant because of your many luxury goods. They gave you silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods. ¹³ Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders. They bartered human lives and vessels of bronze for your merchandise. ¹⁴ Those from the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses, steeds, and mules. ¹⁵ The men of Dedan were your traders; many isles were the market of your hand. They brought you ivory tusks and ebony as payment. ¹⁶ Syria was your merchant because of the abundance of goods you made. They gave you for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidery, fine linen, corals, and rubies. ¹⁷ Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, millet, honey, oil, and balm. ¹⁸ Damascus was your merchant because of the abundance of goods you made, because of your many luxury items, with the wine of Helbon and with white wool. ¹⁹ Dan and Javan paid for your wares, traversing back and forth. Wrought iron, cassia, and cane were among your merchandise. ²⁰ Dedan was your merchant in saddlecloths for riding. ²¹ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your regular merchants. They traded with you in lambs, rams, and goats. ²² The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were your merchants. They traded for your wares the choicest spices, all kinds of precious stones, and gold. ²³ Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, and Chilmad were your merchants. ²⁴ These were your merchants in choice items—in purple clothes, in embroidered garments, in chests of multicolored apparel, in sturdy woven cords, which were in your marketplace. ²⁵ You were filled and very glorious in the midst of the seas. ²⁶ But the east wind broke you in the midst of the seas. ²⁷ Will fall into the midst of the seas on the day of your ruin. ²⁸ The common-land will shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots. ²⁹ Will come down from their ships and stand on the shore. ³⁰ They will roll about in ashes; ³¹ With bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. ³² Destroyed in the midst of the sea? ³³ With your many luxury goods and your merchandise. ³⁴ Your merchandise and the entire company will fall in your midst. ³⁵ And their countenance will be troubled. ³⁶ You will become a horror, and be no more forever.’ ” ’ ”