And strew ashes on themselves.
31On your account, they shall make
Bald patches on their heads,
And shall gird themselves with sackcloth.
They shall weep over you, brokenhearted,
With bitter lamenting;
32They shall intone a dirge over you as they wail,
And lament for you thus:
Who was like Tyre when she was silenced
In the midst of the sea?
33When your wares were unloaded from the seas,
You satisfied many peoples;
With your great wealth and merchandise
You enriched the kings of the earth.
34But when you were wrecked on the seas,
In the deep waters sank your merchandise
And all the crew aboard you.
35All the inhabitants of the coastlands
Are appalled over you;
Their kings are aghast,
Their faces contorted.f
36The merchants among the peoples hissedh at you;
You have become a horror,
And have ceased to be forever.
28 The word of the LORD came to me: 2O mortal, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus said the Lord GOD:
Because you have been so haughty and have said, “I am a god; I sit enthroned like a god in the heart of the seas,” whereas you are not a god but a man, though you deemed your mind equal to a god’sa—
3Yes, you are wiser than Daniel;
In no hidden matter can anyone
Compare to you.
4By your shrewd understanding
You have gained riches,
And have amassed gold and silver
In your treasuries.
5By your great shrewdness in trade
You have increased your wealth,
And you have grown haughty
Because of your wealth.
6Assuredly, thus said the Lord GOD: Because you have deemed your mind equal to a god’s,
7I swear I will bring against you
Strangers, the most ruthless of nations.
They shall unsheathe their swords
Against your prized shrewdness,
And they shall strike downb your splendor.
8They shall bring you down to the Pit;
In the heart of the sea you shall die
The death of the slain.
9Will you still say, “I am a god”
Before your slayers,
When you are proved a man, not a god,
At the hands of those who strike you down?
10By the hands of strangers you shall die
The death of the uncircumcised;c
For I have spoken
—declares the Lord GOD.
11The word of the LORD came to me: 12O mortal, intone a dirge over the king of Tyre and say to him: Thus said the Lord GOD:
You were the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and flawless in beauty.
13You were in Eden, the garden of God;
Every precious stone was your adornment:
Carnelian, chrysolite, and amethyst;
Beryl, lapis lazuli, and jasper;
Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald;
And gold d-beautifully wrought for you,
Mined for you, prepared the day you were created.-d
14b-I created you as a cherub
With outstretched shielding wings;-b
And you resided on God’s holy mountain;
You walked among stones of fire.
15You were blameless in your ways,
From the day you were created
Until wrongdoing was found in you.
16By your far-flung commerce
You were filled with lawlessness
And you sinned.
So I have struck you down
From the mountain of God,
And I have destroyed you, O shielding cherub,
From among the stones of fire.
17You grew haughty because of your beauty,
You debased your wisdom for the sake of your splendor;
I have cast you to the ground,
I have made you an object for kings to stare at.
18By the greatness of your guilt,
Through the dishonesty of your trading,
You desecrated your sanctuaries.
So I made a fire issue from you,
And it has devoured you;
I have reduced you to ashes on the ground,
In the sight of all who behold you.
19All who knew you among the peoples
Are appalled at your doom.
You have become a horror
And have ceased to be forever.
20The word of the LORD came to me: 21O mortal, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against her. 22Say: Thus said the Lord GOD:
I am going to deal with you, O Sidon.
I will gain glory in your midst;
And they shall know that I am the LORD,
When I wreak punishment upon her
And show Myself holy through her.
23I will let pestilence loose against her
And bloodshed into her streets.
And the slain shall fall in her midst
When the sword comes upon her from all sides.
And they shall know that I am the LORD.
24Then shall the House of Israel no longer be afflicted with prickling briers and lacerating thorns from all the neighbors who despise them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
25Thus said the Lord GOD: When I have gathered the House of Israel from the peoples among which they have been dispersed, and have shown Myself holy through them in the sight of the nations, they shall settle on their own soil, which I gave to My servant Jacob, 26and they shall dwell on it in security. They shall build houses and plant vineyards, and shall dwell on it in security, when I have meted out punishment to all those about them who despise them. And they shall know that I the LORD am their God.
29 In the tenth year, on the twelfth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me: 2O mortal, turn your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt. 3Speak these words:
Thus said the Lord GOD:
I am going to deal with you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt,
Mighty monster, sprawling in youra channels,
Who said,
My Nile is my own;
I made it for myself.
4I will put hooks in your jaws,
And make the fish of your channels
Cling to your scales;
I will haul you up from your channels,
With all the fish of your channels
Clinging to your scales.
5And I will fling you into the desert,
With all the fish of your channels.
You shall be left lying in the open,
Ungathered and unburied:
I have given you as food
To the beasts of the earth
And the birds of the sky.
6Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know
That I am the LORD.
Because youb were a staff of reed
To the House of Israel:
7When they grasped you with the hand, you would splinter,
And wound all their shoulders,c
And when they leaned on you, you would break,
And make all their loins unsteady.d
8Assuredly, thus said the Lord GOD: Lo, I will bring a sword against you, and will cut off man and beast from you, 9so that the land of Egypt shall fall into desolation and ruin. And they shall know that I am the LORD—because he boasted, “The Nile is mine, and I made it.” 10Assuredly, I am going to deal with you and your channels, and I will reduce the land of Egypt to utter ruin and desolation, e-from Migdol to Syene, all the way to the border of Nubia.-e 11No foot of man shall traverse it, and no foot of beast shall traverse it; and it shall remain uninhabited for forty years. 12For forty years I will make the land of Egypt the most desolate of desolate lands, and its cities shall be the most desolate of ruined cities. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries.
13Further, thus said the Lord GOD: After a period of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were dispersed. 14I will restore the fortunes of the Egyptians and bring them back to the land of their origin, the land of Pathros,f and there they shall be a lowly kingdom. 15It shall be the lowliest of all the kingdoms, and shall not lord it over the nations again. I will reduce the Egyptians,g so that they shall have no dominion over the nations. 16Never again shall they be the trust of the House of Israel, recalling its guilt in having turned to them. And they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
17In the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me: 18O mortal, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has made his army expend vast labor on Tyre; every head is rubbed bald and every shoulder scraped. But he and his army have had no return for the labor he expended on Tyre. 19Assuredly, thus said the Lord GOD: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon. He shall carry off her wealth and take her spoil and seize her booty; and she shall be the recompense of his army. 20As the wage for which he labored, for what they did for Me, I give him the land of Egypt—declares the Lord GOD.
21On that day I will h-endow the House of Israel with strength, and you shall be vindicated-h among them. And they shall know that I am the LORD.
30The word of the LORD came to me: 2O mortal, prophesy and say: Thus said the Lord GOD:
Wail, alas for the day!
3For a day is near;
A day of the LORD is near.
It will be a day of cloud,
An hour of [invading] nations.
4A sword shall pierce Egypt,
And Nubia shall be seized with trembling,
When men fall slain in Egypt
And her wealth is seized
And her foundations are overthrown.
5Nubia, Put, and Lud, and all a-the mixed populations,-a and Cub, and the inhabitants of the allied countries shall fall by the sword with them.
6Thus said the LORD:
Those who support Egypt shall fall,
And her proud strength shall sink;
There they shall fall by the sword,
From Migdol to Syene
—declares the Lord GOD.
7They shall be the most desolate of desolate lands, and her cities shall be the most ruined of cities, 8when I set fire to Egypt and all who help her are broken. Thus they shall know that I am the LORD.
9On that day, messengers shall set out at My bidding to strike terror into confident Nubia. And they shall be seized with trembling on Egypt’s day [of doom]—for it is at hand.
10Thus said the Lord GOD: I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt through King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon. 11He, together with his troops, the most ruthless of the nations, shall be brought to ravage the land. And they shall unsheathe the sword
