1. This is a message about Tyre:You trading ships, cry!The houses and harbor of Tyre are destroyed.This news came to the shipsfrom the land of Cyprus.
2. Be silent, you who live on the island of Tyre;you merchants of Sidon, be silent.Sailors have made you rich.
3. They traveled the sea to bring grain from Egypt;the sailors of Tyre brought grain from the Nile Valleyand sold it to other nations.