<t /><p class="poetry">Here is a message about Tyre:p> <p class="poetry">Wail, you large ships,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for the port is too devastated to enter!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">From the land of Cyprus<n id="3" /> this news is announced to them.p>

<p class="poetry">Go, my people! Enter your inner rooms!p> <p class="poetry">Close your doors behind you!p> <p class="poetry">Hide for a little while,p> <p class="poetry">until his angry judgment is over!<n id="1" />p>

At that time<n id="1" /> a large<n id="2" /> trumpet will be blown, and the ones lost<n id="3" /> in the land of Assyria will come, as well as the refugees in<n id="4" /> the land of Egypt. They will worship the <sc>Lordsc> on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Now go, write it<n id="1" /> down on a tablet in their presence,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">inscribe it on a scroll,p> <p class="poetry">so that it might be preserved for a future timep> <p class="poetry">as an enduring witness.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">So this sin will become your downfall.p> <p class="poetry">You will be like a high wallp> <p class="poetry">that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse;p> <p class="poetry">it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, the name<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> comes from a distant placep> <p class="poetry">in raging anger and awesome splendor.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He speaks angrilyp> <p class="poetry">and his word is like destructive fire.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">You will singp> <p class="poetry">as you do in the evening when you are celebrating a festival.p> <p class="poetry">You will be happy like one who plays a flutep> <p class="poetry">as he goes to the mountain of the <sc>Lordsc>, the Rock who shelters Israel.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet he too is wise<n id="1" /> and he will bring disaster;p> <p class="poetry">he does not retract his decree.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He will attack the wicked nation,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the nation that helps<n id="4" /> those who commit sin.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">those whom the <sc>Lordsc> has ransomed will return that way.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will enter Zion with a happy shout.p> <p class="poetry">Unending joy will crown them,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">happiness and joy will overwhelm<n id="3" /> them;p> <p class="poetry">grief and suffering will disappear.<n id="4" />p>

until I come and take you to a land just like your own &#8211; a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">Certainly you must have heard!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Long ago I worked it out,p> <p class="poetry">in ancient times I planned<n id="3" /> it,p> <p class="poetry">and now I am bringing it to pass.p> <p class="poetry">The plan is this:p> <p class="poetry">Fortified cities will crashp> <p class="poetry">into heaps of ruins.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Because you rage against mep> <p class="poetry">and the uproar you create has reached my ears,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will put my hook in your nose,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and my bridle between your lips,p> <p class="poetry">and I will lead you backp> <p class="poetry">the way you came.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Look, the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> comes as a victorious warrior;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">his military power establishes his rule.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Look, his reward is with him;p> <p class="poetry">his prize goes before him.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen!p> <p class="poetry">Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so we may examine them<n id="2" /> and see how they were fulfilled.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Or decree for us some future events!p>

<p class="poetry">I have stirred up one out of the north<n id="1" /> and he advances,p> <p class="poetry">one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He steps on<n id="3" /> rulers as if they were clay,p> <p class="poetry">like a potter treading the clay.p>

<p class="poetry">You did not bring me lambs for your burnt offerings;p> <p class="poetry">you did not honor me with your sacrifices.p> <p class="poetry">I did not burden you with offerings;p> <p class="poetry">I did not make you weary by demanding<n id="1" /> incense.p>

<p class="poetry">Who is like me? Let him make his claim!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let him announce it and explain it to me &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">since I established an ancient people &#8211; <n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">let them announce future events!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Gather together and come!p> <p class="poetry">Approach together, you refugees from the nations!p> <p class="poetry">Those who carry wooden idols know nothing,p> <p class="poetry">those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.p>

<p class="poetry">who summons an eagle<n id="1" /> from the east,p> <p class="poetry">from a distant land, one who carries out my plan.p> <p class="poetry">Yes, I have decreed,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">yes, I will bring it to pass;p> <p class="poetry">I have formulated a plan,p> <p class="poetry">yes, I will carry it out.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Sit silently! Go to a hiding place,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">O daughter of the Babylonians!p> <p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="2" /> you will no longer be called &#8216;Queen of kingdoms.&#8217;p>