Ezekiel 27:26-36

Expanded Bible

²⁶ The men who rowed you
    brought you out into the high seas,
but the east wind broke you to pieces
    in the ·middle [^Lheart] of the sea.

²⁷ Your wealth, your ·trade [products], your goods,
    your seamen, your ·sailors [or captains], your ·workers [or caulkers],
your traders, your ·warriors [soldiers],
    and everyone else on board
sank into the ·sea [^Lheart of the sea]
    on the day ·your ship was wrecked [^Lof your fall].

²⁸ The ·people on the shore shake with fear [^Lcountryside shakes; or waves surge]
when your ·sailors [or captains] cry out.

²⁹ All the men who row
    ·leave [disembark from; or abandon] their ships;
the seamen and the ·sailors [or captains] of other ships
    stand on the shore.

³⁰ They cry loudly about you;
    they cry ·very much [bitterly].
They throw dust on their heads
    and roll in ashes.

³¹ They shave their heads for you,
    and they put on ·rough cloth [burlap; sackcloth; ^Csigns of sorrow and distress].
They ·cry and sob for you [weep over you with bitter souls];
    they ·cry loudly [mourn bitterly].

³² And in their ·loud crying [wailing]
    they sing a ·funeral song [lament; dirge] for you:
“·No one was ever destroyed [^LWho was…?] like Tyre,
    ·surrounded by [or like a tower in the middle of; or now silent in the midst of] the sea.”

³³ When the goods you traded went out over the seas,
    you ·met the needs of [satisfied] many nations.
With your great wealth and ·goods [merchandise],
    you made kings of the earth rich.

³⁴ But now you are ·broken [shipwrecked; shattered] by the sea
    ·and have sunk to the bottom [^Lin the depths of the waters].
Your ·goods [merchandise] and all the people on board
    have gone down with you.

³⁵ All those who live along the ·shore [coastland]
    are ·shocked [appalled; aghast] by what happened to you.
Their kings are ·terribly afraid [horrified],
    and their faces ·show their fear [are troubled/contorted].

³⁶ The traders among the nations hiss at you.
    You have ·come to a terrible end [or become a horror],
and you are gone forever.’”