5. When the news reaches Egypt,they will be shaken by what has happened to Tyre.
6. Travel to Tarshish!Wail, you residents of the coast!
7. Is this really your boisterous city whose origins are in the distant past,and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?
8. Who planned this for royal Tyre,whose merchants are princes,whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?
9. The Lord who commands armies planned it – to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty,to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.
10. Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile;there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.
11. The Lord stretched out his hand over the sea,he shook kingdoms;he gave the order to destroy Canaan’s fortresses.
12. He said,“You will no longer celebrate,oppressed virgin daughter Sidon!Get up, travel to Cyprus,but you will find no relief there.”
13. Look at the land of the Chaldeans,these people who have lost their identity!The Assyrians have made it a home for wild animals.They erected their siege towers,demolished its fortresses,and turned it into a heap of ruins.
14. Wail, you large ships,for your fortress is destroyed!
15. At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the typical life span of a king. At the end of seventy years Tyre will try to attract attention again, like the prostitute in the popular song:
16. “Take the harp,go through the city,forgotten prostitute!Play it well,play lots of songs,so you’ll be noticed!”