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17 Then they will sing this funeral song for you:

Tyre, you famous city, you have been destroyed.
    You have been shattered by the sea.
        You and your people ruled the sea.
            All your people terrified those who lived by the coast.
18 Your defeat will make the people who live by the coast tremble.
    Your end will terrify the islands in the sea.

19 “This is what Adonay Yahweh says: I will turn your city into ruins like cities that have no one living in them. I will bring the deep ocean over you, and the Mediterranean Sea will cover you.

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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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