17. ‘And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and say to you, “How you have perished, O one inhabited by seafaring men, the city well-praised, who was strong at sea, she and her inhabitants, who put their fear on all her inhabitants!
18. Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall! And the coastlands by the sea shall shudder at your going out.” ’
19. “For thus said the Master יהוה, ‘When I make you a ruined city, like cities no longer inhabited, when I bring the deep upon you, and great waters cover you,
20. then I shall bring you down with those who go down into the Pit, to the people of old. And I shall make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in wastes of old, with those who go to the Pit, so that you do not return. But I shall establish splendour in the land of the living.
21. ‘I make you a horror, and let you be no more. And you are sought for, but never found again,’ declares the Master יהוה.”