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2Be silent, you people of the island
and you merchants of Sidon,
whom the seafarers have enriched.

3On the great waters
came the grain of the Shihor;
the harvest of the NileMasoretic Text; one Dead Sea Scroll Sidon, / who cross over the sea; / your envoys 3 are on the great waters. / The grain of the Shihor, / the harvest of the Nile, was the revenue of Tyre,
and she became the marketplace of the nations.

4Be ashamed, O Sidon, and you, O fortress of the sea,
for the sea has spoken:
“I have neither been in labor nor given birth;
I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”

5When word comes to Egypt,
they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.

6Cross over to Tarshish;
wail, you people of the island.

7Is this your city of revelry,
the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
to settle in far-off lands?

8Who planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants are princes,
whose traders are renowned in the earth?

9The LORD Almighty planned it,
to bring low the pride of all glory
and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.

10TillDead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text Go through your land as along the Nile,
O Daughter of Tarshish,
for you no longer have a harbor.

11The LORD has stretched out his hand over the sea
and made its kingdoms tremble.
He has given an order concerning PhoeniciaHebrew Canaan
that her fortresses be destroyed.

12He said, “No more of your reveling,
O Virgin Daughter of Sidon, now crushed!
“Up, cross over to CyprusHebrew Kittim;
even there you will find no rest.”

13Look at the land of the Babylonians,Or Chaldeans
this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians have made it
a place for desert creatures;
they raised up their siege towers,
they stripped its fortresses bare
and turned it into a ruin.

14Wail, you ships of Tarshish;
your fortress is destroyed!

15At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king's life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute: