17 Then they will lament(A) for you and say of you:

How you have perished, city of renown,
you who were populated from the seas![a]
She who was powerful on the sea,
she and all of her inhabitants
inflicted their terror.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:17 Some LXX mss read How you were destroyed from the seas, city of renown!
  2. Ezekiel 26:17 Lit and all her inhabitants who put their terror on all her inhabitants; Hb obscure

17 Then they will take up a lament(A) concerning you and say to you:

“‘How you are destroyed, city of renown,
    peopled by men of the sea!
You were a power on the seas,
    you and your citizens;
you put your terror
    on all who lived there.(B)

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17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

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“Now, son of man, lament for Tyre.(A)

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“Son of man, take up a lament(A) concerning Tyre.

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Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

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