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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: “‘You were like a lion among the nations, but you are a monster in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, stir up the water with your feet, and muddy your streams.

“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.

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your clients; they exchanged slaves and bronze items for your merchandise.

“For this is what the sovereign Lord says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging waters overwhelm you,