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17 They will sing this funeral song for you:

The famous city is destroyed!
Her ships have been swept[a] from the seas.
The people of this city ruled the seas
And terrified all who lived on the coast.
18 Now, on the day it has fallen,
The islands are trembling,
And their people are shocked at such destruction.”

19 The Sovereign Lord says: “I will make you as desolate as ruined cities where no one lives. I will cover you with the water of the ocean depths.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:17 Some ancient translations swept; Hebrew inhabited.

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)
18 Now the coastlands tremble(C)
    on the day of your fall;
the islands in the sea
    are terrified at your collapse.’(D)

19 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths(E) over you and its vast waters cover you,(F)

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