The kings of TARSHISH and of the islands will bring tribute.The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

For all the ships of TARSHISH,and for all pleasant imagery.

1. The burden of Tyre.Howl, you ships of TARSHISH! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

2. Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

3. On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.

4. Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins."

5. When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.

6. Pass over to TARSHISH! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!

7. Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?

8. Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

9. The LORD of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

10. Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of TARSHISH. There is no restraint any more.

11. He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. the LORD has ordered the destruction of Canaan's strongholds.

12. He said, "You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest."

13. Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people was not. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.

14. Howl, you ships of TARSHISH, for your stronghold is laid waste!

Surely the islands will wait for me,and the ships of TARSHISH first,to bring your sons from far,their silver and their gold with them,for the name of the LORD your God,and for the Holy One of Israel,because he has glorified you.

"I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to TARSHISH, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.