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17 Then they will sing a dirge over you:

    How you are destroyed, O famous city!
        City of sea people!
    You and your kind were a great force on the seas;
        you terrorized all who lived around you.
18     Now, the coastlands will quake on the day when you fall,
        and the cities along the shore will be terrified by your passing.

19 When I destroy you and empty your streets, when I drown you and bury you within the ocean depths,

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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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