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Mourn, inhabitants of the coastland,
you merchants of Sidon;(A)
your agents have crossed the sea[a]
over deep water.
Tyre’s revenue was the grain from Shihor –
the harvest of the Nile.
She was the merchant among the nations.(B)
Be ashamed, Sidon, the stronghold of the sea,
for the sea has spoken:
‘I have not been in labour or given birth.
I have not raised young men
or brought up young women.’

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Footnotes

  1. 23:2 DSS; MT reads Sidon, whom the seafarers have filled