“O Tyre, you have said,

‘I am ^yperfect in beauty.’

4  Your borders are in the heart of the seas;

your builders made perfect your beauty.

5  They made all your planks

of fir trees from Senir;

they took a cedar from Lebanon

to make a mast for you.

6  Of ^zoaks of Bashan

they made your oars;

they made your deck of pines

from the coasts of Cyprus,

inlaid with ivory.

7  Of fine embroidered ^alinen from Egypt

was your sail,

serving as your banner;

blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah

was your awning.

8  The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad

were your rowers;

your skilled men, O Tyre, were in you;

they were your pilots.

9  The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you,

caulking your seams;

all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you

to barter for your wares.

26  “Your rowers have brought you out

into the high seas.

The ^deast wind has wrecked you

in the heart of the seas.

27  Your riches, your wares, your merchandise,

your mariners and your pilots,

your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise,

and all your men of war who are in you,

with all your crew

that is in your midst,

sink into the heart of the seas

on the day of your fall.

28  At the sound of the cry of your pilots

the countryside shakes,

29  and down from their ships

come all who handle the oar.

The mariners and all the pilots of the sea

stand on the land

30  and shout aloud over you

and cry out bitterly.

They cast dust on their heads

and ^ewallow in ashes;

31  they make themselves ^fbald for you

and put sackcloth on their waist,

and they weep over you in bitterness of soul,

with bitter mourning.

32  In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you

and lament over you:

‘Who is like Tyre,

like one destroyed in the midst of the sea?

33  When your wares came from the seas,

you satisfied many peoples;

with your abundant wealth and merchandise

you enriched the kings of the earth.

34  Now you are wrecked by the seas,

in the depths of the waters;

your merchandise and all your crew in your midst

have sunk with you.

35  All the inhabitants of the coastlands

are appalled at you,

and the hair of their kings ^gbristles with horror;

their faces are convulsed.

36  The merchants among the peoples hiss at you;

you have come to a ^hdreadful end

and shall be no more forever.’”

“Because your ⁱheart is proud,

and you have said, ‘I am a god,

I sit in the seat of the gods,

in the heart of the seas,’

yet you are but a man, and no god,

though you make your heart like the heart of a god—

3  ^jyou are indeed ^kwiser than Daniel;

no secret is hidden from you;

4  by your wisdom and your understanding

you have made wealth for yourself,

and have gathered gold and silver

into your treasuries;

5  by your great wisdom in your trade

you have increased your wealth,

and your heart has become proud in your wealth—

6  therefore thus says the Lord God:

Because you make your heart

like the heart of a god,

7  therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you,

^lthe most ruthless of the nations;

and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom

and defile your splendor.

8  They shall thrust you down into the pit,

and you shall die the death of the slain

in the heart of the seas.

9  Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’

in the presence of those who kill you,

though you are but a man, and no god,

in the hands of those who slay you?

10  ^mYou shall die the death of the uncircumcised

by the hand of foreigners;

for I have spoken, declares the Lord God.”

“You were the signet of perfection,¹

full of wisdom and ^operfect in beauty.

13  You were in ^pEden, the ^qgarden of God;

every precious stone was your covering,

sardius, topaz, and diamond,

beryl, onyx, and jasper,

sapphire,² emerald, and carbuncle;

and crafted in gold were your settings

and your engravings.³

On the day that you were created

they were prepared.

14  You were an anointed guardian cherub.

I placed you;⁴ you were on the ^rholy mountain of God;

in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.

15  You were blameless in your ways

from the day you were created,

till unrighteousness was found in you.

16  In the abundance of your trade

you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned;

so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God,

and I destroyed you,⁵ O guardian cherub,

from the midst of the stones of fire.

17  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.

18  By the multitude of your iniquities,

in the unrighteousness of your trade

you profaned your sanctuaries;

so I brought fire out from your midst;

it consumed you,

and I turned you to ashes on the earth

in the sight of all who saw you.

19  All who know you among the peoples

are appalled at you;

you have come to a ^sdreadful end

and shall be no more forever.”

“Behold, I am against you, O Sidon,

and I will ^tmanifest my glory in your midst.

And they shall know that I am the Lord

when I execute judgments in her

and ^umanifest my holiness in her;

23  for I will send ^vpestilence into her,

and blood into her streets;

and the slain shall fall in her midst,

by the sword that is against her on every side.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

“Behold, I am against you,

Pharaoh king of Egypt,

the great ^cdragon that lies

in the midst of his streams,

that says, ‘My Nile is my own;

I made it for myself.’

4  I will put ^dhooks in your jaws,

and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales;

and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams,

with all the fish of your streams

that stick to your scales.

5  And I will cast you out into the wilderness,

you and all the fish of your streams;

you shall fall on the open field,

and not be brought together or ^egathered.

^fTo the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens

I give you as food.

^s“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

3  For the day is near,

^tthe day of the Lord is near;

it will be a ^uday of clouds,

a time of doom for¹ the nations.

4  A sword shall come upon Egypt,

and anguish shall be in Cush,

when the slain fall in Egypt,

and her wealth² is carried away,

and her foundations are torn down.

6  “Thus says the Lord:

Those who support Egypt shall fall,

and her proud might shall come down;

^vfrom Migdol to Syene

they shall fall within her by the sword,

declares the Lord God.

7  And they shall be ^wdesolated in the midst of desolated countries,

and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.

8  Then they will know that I am the Lord,

when I have set fire to Egypt,

and all her helpers are broken.

“I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt,

^xby the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

11  He and his people with him, ^ythe most ruthless of nations,

shall be brought in to destroy the land,

and they shall draw their swords against Egypt

and fill the land with the slain.

12  And I will dry up the Nile

and will sell the land ^zinto the hand of evildoers;

I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it,

by the hand of foreigners;

I am the Lord; I have spoken.

“I will destroy the ^aidols

and put an end to the images in Memphis;

^bthere shall no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;

so I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

14  I will make Pathros a desolation

and will set fire to Zoan

and will execute judgments on Thebes.

15  And I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium,

the stronghold of Egypt,

and cut off the multitude⁶ of Thebes.

16  And I will set fire to Egypt;

Pelusium shall be in great agony;

Thebes shall be breached,

and Memphis shall face enemies⁷ by day.

17  The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword,

and the women⁸ shall go into captivity.

18  At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark,

when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt,

and her proud might shall come to an end in her;

she shall be covered by a cloud,

and her daughters shall go into captivity.

19  Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

“Whom are you like in your greatness?

3  Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,

with beautiful branches and forest shade,

and of towering height,

its top among the ^eclouds.¹

4  The waters nourished it;

the deep made it grow tall,

making its rivers flow

around the place of its planting,

sending forth its streams

to all the trees of the field.

5  So it towered high

above all the trees of the field;

its boughs grew large

and its branches long

from ^fabundant water in its shoots.

6  ^gAll the birds of the heavens

made their nests in its boughs;

under its branches all the beasts of the field

gave birth to their young,

and under its shadow

lived all great nations.

7  It was beautiful in its greatness,

in the length of its branches;

for its roots went down

to abundant waters.

8  The cedars in the ^hgarden of God could not rival it,

nor the fir trees equal its boughs;

neither were the plane trees

like its branches;

no tree in the garden of God

was its equal in beauty.

9  I made it beautiful

in the mass of its branches,

and all the trees of Eden envied it,

that were in the garden of God.