I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother’s womb. I praise you continually.

When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.

Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. The locks of your hair are like royal tapestries – the king is held captive in its tresses!

I will attack you; I will purify your metal with flux. I will remove all your slag.

Syria has plotted with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah to bring about your demise.

(just as many were horrified by the sight of you) he was so disfigured he no longer looked like a man;

If anyone dares to challenge you, it will not be my doing! Whoever tries to challenge you will be defeated.

“Arise! Shine! For your light arrives! The splendor of the Lord shines on you!

I will send men against it to destroy it with their axes and hatchets. They will hack up its fine cedar panels and columns and throw them into the fire.

The Lord who rules over all has solemnly sworn, ‘I will fill your land with enemy soldiers. They will swarm over it like locusts. They will raise up shouts of victory over it.’

As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and tie you up with them, so you cannot go out among them.

They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;

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

All the inhabitants of the coastlands are shocked at you, and their kings are horribly afraid – their faces are troubled.

The traders among the peoples hiss at you; you have become a horror, and will be no more.’”

All who know you among the peoples are shocked at you; you have become terrified and will be no more.’”

“‘Be ready and stay ready, you and all your companies assembled around you, and be a guard for them.

I have heard about you, how there is a spirit of the gods in you, and how you have insight, discernment, and extraordinary wisdom.

Many nations have now assembled against you. They say, “Jerusalem must be desecrated, so we can gloat over Zion!”

“You have criticized me sharply,” says the Lord, “but you ask, ‘How have we criticized you?’