⁷ Can this be the joyful city of Tyre, founded so long ago? Is this the city that sent settlers across the sea to establish colonies? ⁸ Who was it that planned to bring all this on Tyre, that imperial city, whose merchant princes were the most honored men on earth? ⁹ The Lord Almighty planned it. He planned it in order to put an end to their pride in what they had done and to humiliate their honored ones.