And say untoTyrus, O thouthat art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for manyisles, Thussaith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thouhastsaid, I am of perfectbeauty.
The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereofwere in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea withtheirmarinerswere in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
The men of Arvadwiththinearmywereupon thy wallsroundabout, and the Gammadimswere in thy towers: theyhangedtheirshieldsupon thy wallsroundabout; theyhavemade thy beautyperfect.
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: theyoccupied in thy fairswithemeralds, purple, and broideredwork, and finelinen, and coral, and agate.
Thesewere thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blueclothes, and broideredwork, and in chests of richapparel, boundwithcords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy companywhich is in the midst of thee, shallfallinto the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
And in theirwailingtheyshalltake up a lamentation for thee, and lamentoverthee, saying, Whatcity is likeTyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
When thy wareswentforth out of the seas, thoufilledstmanypeople; thoudidstenrich the kings of the earthwith the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.