Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

After a priest has become ceremonially clean, they must count off a period of seven days for him.

They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die violently in the heart of the seas.

At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me:

The ships of Tarshish were the transports for your merchandise. “‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.

Your rowers have brought you into surging waters. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it.

I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days for you – 390 days. So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

“For seven days you will provide every day a goat for a sin offering; a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, will be provided.

“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you will celebrate the Passover, and for seven days bread made without yeast will be eaten.

I came to the exiles at Tel Abib, who lived by the Kebar River. I sat dumbfounded among them there, where they were living, for seven days.

Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains, your ship’s carpenters, your merchants, and all your fighting men within you, along with all your crew who are in you, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.

“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Your heart is proud and you said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” – yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike.