1. This is a message about Tyre.Howl with grief, you sailors out on the ocean! Your home port of Tyre has been destroyed; its houses and its harbour are in ruins. As your ships return from Cyprus, you learn the news.
2. Wail, you merchants of Sidon! You sent men
3. across the sea to buy and sell the corn that grew in Egypt and to do business with all the nations.
4. City of Sidon, you are disgraced! The sea and the great ocean depths disown you and say, “I never had any children. I never brought up sons or daughters.”
5. Even the Egyptians will be shocked and dismayed when they learn that Tyre has been destroyed.
6. Howl with grief, you people of Phoenicia! Try to escape to Spain!
7. Can this be the joyful city of Tyre, founded so long ago? Is this the city that sent settlers across the sea to establish colonies?