<p class="poetry">I have leaned on you since birth;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you pulled me<n id="2" /> from my mother&#8217;s womb.p> <p class="poetry">I praise you continually.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">When you walk about,<n id="1" /> they<n id="2" /> will guide you;p> <p class="poetry">when you lie down, they will watch over you;p> <p class="poetry">when you wake up,<n id="3" /> they will talk<n id="4" /> to you.p>

<p class="poetry">Your head crowns<n id="1" /> you like Mount Carmel.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The locks of your hair<n id="3" /> are like royal tapestries<n id="4" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the king is held captive<n id="5" /> in its tresses!p>

<p class="poetry">I will attack you;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will purify your metal with flux.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will remove all your slag.<n id="3" />p>

Syria has plotted with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah to bring about your demise.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">(just as many were horrified by the sight of you)<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he was so disfigured<n id="2" /> he no longer looked like a man;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">If anyone dares to<n id="1" /> challenge you, it will not be my doing!p> <p class="poetry">Whoever tries to challenge you will be defeated.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Arise! Shine! For your light arrives!p> <p class="poetry">The splendor<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> shines on you!p>

<p class="poetry">I will send men against it to destroy it<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">with their axes and hatchets.p> <p class="poetry">They will hack up its fine cedar panels and columnsp> <p class="poetry">and throw them into the fire.p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all<n id="1" /> has solemnly sworn,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;I will fill your land with enemy soldiers.p> <p class="poetry">They will swarm over it like locusts.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They will raise up shouts of victory over it.&#8217;p>

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.

<p class="poetry">They will lament loudly<n id="1" /> over you and cry bitterly.p> <p class="poetry">They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">As they wail they will lament over you, chanting:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Who was like Tyre, like a tower<n id="1" /> in the midst of the sea?&#8221;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">The traders among the peoples hiss at you;p> <p class="poetry">you have become a horror, and will be no more.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">All who know you among the peoples are shocked at you;p> <p class="poetry">you have become terrified and will be no more.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Be ready and stay ready, you and all your companies assembled around you, and be a guard for them.<n id="1" />

I have heard about you, how there is a spirit of the gods in you, and how you have<n id="1" /> insight, discernment, and extraordinary wisdom.

<p class="poetry">Many nations have now assembled against you.p> <p class="poetry">They say, &#8220;Jerusalem must be desecrated,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so we can gloat over Zion!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;You have criticized me sharply,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;but you ask, &#8216;How have we criticized you?&#8217;