1 This is a message about Tyre: Ships traveling from Cyprus heard this message: “Cry, you ships from Tarshish! Your harbor has been destroyed.”
2 You people living near the sea, mourn in silence. The merchants of Sidon sent traders across the sea and filled the city with riches.
3 They traveled the seas looking for grain. The men from Tyre bought grain that grows near the Nile River and sold it to other nations.
4 Sidon, you should be very sad, because now the Sea and the Fort of the Sea say, “I have no children. I have never felt the pain of birth; I have never given birth to children. I have never raised young men and women.”
5 When Egypt hears the news about Tyre, it will feel the pain of sorrow.