<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> stretched out his hand over the sea,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he shook kingdoms;p> <p class="poetry">he<n id="2" /> gave the orderp> <p class="poetry">to destroy Canaan&#8217;s fortresses.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">So in the east<n id="1" /> extol the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">along the seacoasts extol<n id="2" /> the fame<n id="3" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel.p>

<p class="poetry">Sing to the <sc>Lordsc> a brand new song!p> <p class="poetry">Praise him<n id="1" /> from the horizon of the earth,p> <p class="poetry">you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you coastlands<n id="3" /> and those who live there!p>

<p class="poetry">If only you had obeyed my<n id="1" /> commandments,p> <p class="poetry">prosperity would have flowed to you like a river,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God,p> <p class="poetry">who churns up the sea so that its waves surge.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies is his name!p>

For though your people, Israel, are as numerous as<n id="1" /> the sand on the seashore, only a remnant will come back.<n id="2" /> Destruction has been decreed;<n id="3" /> just punishment<n id="4" /> is about to engulf you.<n id="5" />

The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies is about to beat them<n id="1" /> with a whip, similar to the way he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb.<n id="2" /> He will use his staff against the sea, lifting it up as he did in Egypt.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Be ashamed, O Sidon,p> <p class="poetry">for the sea<n id="1" /> says this, O fortress of the sea:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I have not gone into laborp> <p class="poetry">or given birth;p> <p class="poetry">I have not raised young menp> <p class="poetry">or brought up young women.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<v id="(8:23)" /><n id="1" /> The gloom will be dispelled for those who were anxious.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">In earlier times he<n id="3" /> humiliatedp> <p class="poetry">the land of Zebulun,p> <p class="poetry">and the land of Naphtali;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">but now he brings honor<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">to the way of the sea,p> <p class="poetry">the region beyond the Jordan,p> <p class="poetry">and Galilee of the nations.<n id="6" />p>

At that time<n id="1" /> the sovereign master<n id="2" /> will again lift his hand<n id="3" /> to reclaim<n id="4" /> the remnant of his people<n id="5" /> from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros,<n id="6" /> Cush,<n id="7" /> Elam, Shinar,<n id="8" /> Hamath, and the seacoasts.<n id="9" />p>