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

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

He said to me, “These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the Arabah; when they enter the Dead Sea, where the sea is stagnant, the waters become fresh.

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

They will sing this lament over you: “‘How you have perished – you have vanished from the seas, O renowned city, once mighty in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror!

Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’

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

As they wail they will lament over you, chanting: “Who was like Tyre, like a tower in the midst of the sea?”

Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.

When your products went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.

“This will be the border of the land: On the north side, from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to the entrance of Zedad;

On the west side the Great Sea will be the boundary to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This is the west side.

They will descend from their ships – all who handle the oar, the sailors and all the sea captains – they will stand on the land.

On the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, the river, to the Great Sea. This is the south side.

Fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to En-eglaim they will spread nets. They will catch many kinds of fish, like the fish of the Great Sea.

therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against you, O Tyre! I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were within you, mending cracks; all the ships of the sea and their mariners were within you to trade for your merchandise.

Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance of the sea, merchant to the peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfectly beautiful.”

On the east side, between Hauran and Damascus, and between Gilead and the land of Israel, will be the Jordan. You will measure from the border to the eastern sea. This is the east side.

She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord. She will become plunder for the nations,