<p class="poetry">The leaders<n id="1" /> of Sidon<n id="2" /> and Arvad<n id="3" /> were your rowers;p> <p class="poetry">your skilled<n id="4" /> men, O Tyre, were your captains.p>

<p class="poetry">All the inhabitants of the coastlands are shocked at you,p> <p class="poetry">and their kings are horribly afraid &#8211; their faces are troubled.p>

<p class="poetry">Then all those living in Egypt will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">because they were a reed staff<n id="1" /> for the house of Israel;p>

You will say, &#8220;I will invade<n id="1" /> a land of unwalled towns; I will advance against<n id="2" /> those living quietly in security &#8211; all of them living without walls and barred gates &#8211;

&#8220;Son of man, your brothers,<n id="1" /> your relatives,<n id="2" /> and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem<n id="3" /> have said, &#8216;They have gone<n id="4" /> far away from the <sc>Lordsc>; to us this land has been given as a possession.&#8217;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Therefore, this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Like the wood of the vine is among the trees of the forest which I have provided as fuel for the fire &#8211; so I will provide the residents of Jerusalem<n id="1" /> as fuel.<n id="2" />

&#8220;Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, &#8216;Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.&#8217;<n id="1" />

to loot and plunder, to attack<n id="1" /> the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center<n id="2" /> of the earth.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Then those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and use the weapons for kindling<n id="1" /> &#8211; the shields,<n id="2" /> bows and arrows, war clubs and spears &#8211; they will burn them for seven years.