Ezekiel 27:18-32

¹⁸Because of your many products and your great wealth of goods, Damascus traded with you wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar,

¹⁹and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged for your merchandise.

²⁰Dedan was your merchant in saddlecloths for riding.

²¹Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers, trading in lambs, rams, and goats.

²²The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your wares they exchanged gold, the finest of all spices, and precious stones.

²³Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.

²⁴In your marketplace they traded with you fine garments of blue, embroidered work, and multicolored rugs with cords tightly twisted and knotted.

²⁵The ships of Tarshish

carried your merchandise.

And you were filled with heavy cargo

in the heart of the sea.

²⁶Your oarsmen have brought you

onto the high seas,

but the east wind will shatter you

in the heart of the sea.

²⁷Your wealth, wares, and merchandise,

your sailors, captains, and shipwrights,

your merchants and all the warriors within you,

with all the other people on board,

will sink into the heart of the sea

on the day of your downfall.

²⁸The countryside will shake

when your sailors cry out.

²⁹All who handle the oars

will abandon their ships.

The sailors and all the captains of the sea

will stand on the shore.

³⁰They will raise their voices for you

and cry out bitterly.

They will throw dust on their heads

and roll in ashes.

³¹They will shave their heads for you

and wrap themselves in sackcloth.

They will weep over you

with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.

³²As they wail and mourn over you,

they will take up a lament for you:

‘Who was ever like Tyre,

silenced in the middle of the sea?