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Shall come down from their ships,

They shall stand upon the land,

³⁰And shall cause their voice to be heard over thee,

And shall cry bitterly,

And shall cast up dust upon their heads,

They shall roll themselves in the ashes;

³¹And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee,

And gird them with sackcloth,

And they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul

With bitter lamentation.

³²And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee,

And lament over thee:

Who was there like Tyre, fortified

In the midst of the sea?

³³When thy wares came forth out of the seas,

Thou didst fill many peoples;

With the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise

Didst thou enrich the kings of the earth.

³⁴Now that thou art broken by the seas

In the depths of the waters,

And thy merchandise and all thy company

Are fallen in the midst of thee,

³⁵All the inhabitants of the isles

Are appalled at thee,

And their kings are horribly afraid,

They are troubled in their countenance;

³⁶The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee;

Thou art become a terror,

And never shalt be any more.'

28And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying: ²'Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God:

Because thy heart is lifted up,

And thou hast said: I am a god,

I sit in the seat of God,

In the heart of the seas;

Yet thou art man, and not God,

Though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God—

³Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel!

There is no secret that they can hide from thee!

⁴By thy wisdom and by thy discernment

Thou hast gotten thee riches,

And hast gotten gold and silver

Into thy treasures;

⁵In thy great wisdom by thy traffic

Hast thou increased thy riches,

And thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches—

⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord God:

Because thou hast set thy heart

As the heart of God;

⁷Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee,

The terrible of the nations;

And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom,

And they shall defile thy brightness.

⁸They shall bring thee down to the pit;

And thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain,

In the heart of the seas.

⁹Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee:

I am God?

But thou art man, and not God,

In the hand of them that defile thee.

¹⁰Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised

By the hand of strangers;

For I have spoken, saith the Lord God.'

¹¹Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying: ¹²'Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of

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