'What was your mother?  A lioness.
She couched among lions,
in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs. ³ She brought up one of her cubs.
He became a young lion.
He learned to catch the prey.
He devoured adam.
⁴ Goyim also heard of him.
He was taken in their pit;
and they brought him with hooks el-eretz Mitzrayim."
⁵ 'Now when she saw that she had waited,
and her hope was lost,
then she took another of her cubs,
and made him a young lion.
⁶ He went up and down among the lions.
He became a young lion.
He learned to catch the prey.
He devoured adam.
⁷ He knew their palaces,
and laid waste their cities.
eretz was desolate with its fullness,
because of the noise of his roaring.
⁸ Goyim attacked him on every side from the provinces.
They spread their net over him.
He was taken in their pit.
⁹ They put him in a cage with hooks,
and brought him el-melekh Bavel.
They brought him into strongholds,
so that his voice should no more be heard
on the mountains of Yisra'el.

¹⁰ " 'Your mother was like a vine in your blood,
planted al-mayim.
It was fruitful and full of branches
by reason of mayim rabbim.
¹¹ It had strong branches
for the scepters of those who ruled.
Their stature was exalted
among the thick boughs.
They were seen in their height
with the multitude of their branches.
¹² But it was plucked up in fury.
It was cast down la-aretz,
and the east wind dried up its fruit.
Its strong branches were broken off and withered.
The fire consumed them.
¹³ Now it is planted ba-midbar,
b'eretz dry and thirsty.
¹⁴ Fire has gone out of its branches.
It has devoured its fruit,
so that there is in it no strong branch
to be a scepter to rule.'

"A sword!  A sword!  It is sharpened, and also polished.
^{10 [15]} It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter.
It is polished that it may be as lightning.

"A sword!  A sword is drawn!
It is polished for the slaughter,
to cause it to devour,
that it may be as barak;

'You will drink of the cup of your achot,
which is deep and large.
You will be ridiculed and held in derision.
It contains much.
³³  You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
with the cup of astonishment and desolation,
with the cup of your sister Shomron.
³⁴ You will even drink it and drain it out.
You will gnaw the broken pieces of it,
and will tear your breasts;

"Put the cauldron on the fire.
Put it on,
and also pour water into it.
⁴ Gather its pieces into it,
even every good piece:
the thigh and the shoulder.
Fill it with the choice bones.
⁵ Take the choice of the flock,
and also a pile of wood for the bones under the cauldron.
Make it boil well.
Yes, let its bones be boiled within it."

"Woe to the bloody city,
to the cauldron whose rust is in it,
and whose rust hasn't gone out of it!
Take out of it piece after piece
without casting lots for it.
⁷ " ' "For the blood she shed is in the middle of her.
She set it on the bare rock.
She didn't pour it `al-ha-aretz,
to cover it with dust.
⁸ That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance,
I have set her blood on the bare rock,
that it should not be covered."

"Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. ¹⁰ Heap on the wood.
Make the fire hot.
Boil the meat well.
Make the broth thick,
and let the bones be burned.
¹¹ Then set it empty on its coals,
that it may be hot,
and its bronze may burn,
and that its filthiness may be molten in it,
that its rust may be consumed.
¹² She is weary with toil;
yet her great rust,
rust by fire, doesn't leave her.
¹³ " ' "In your filthiness is lewdness.
Because I have cleansed you
and you weren't cleansed,
you won't be cleansed from your filthiness any more,
until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

"How you are destroyed,
who were inhabited by seafaring men,
the renowned city,
who was strong in the sea,
she and her inhabitants,
who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!"
¹⁸ Now the islands will tremble in the day of your fall.
Yes, the islands that are in the sea will be dismayed at your departure.'

"You, Tyre, have said,
'I am perfect in beauty.'
⁴ Your borders are in the heart of the seas.
Your builders have perfected your beauty.
⁵ They have made all your planks of cypress trees from Senir.
They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
⁶ They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan.
They have made your benches of ivory
inlaid in cypress wood
from the islands of Kittim.
⁷ Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt,
that it might be to you for a banner.
Blue and purple from the islands of Elishah
was your awning.
⁸ The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad
were your rowers.
Your wise men, Tyre, were in you.
They were your pilots.
⁹ Ziknei Geval and its chakhamim were your repairers of ship seams in you.
All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you
to deal in your merchandise.

You were replenished and made very glorious
in the heart of the seas.
²⁶ Your rowers have brought you
into great waters.
The east wind has broken
you in the heart of the seas.
²⁷ Your riches, your wares, your merchandise,
your mariners, your pilots, your repairers of ship seams,
the dealers in your merchandise,
and all your men of war who are in you,
with all your company which is among you,
will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.
²⁸ At the sound of the cry of your pilots,
the pasture lands will shake.
²⁹ All who handle the oars,
the mariners and all the pilots of the sea,
will come down from their ships.
They will stand on the land,
³⁰ and will cause their voice to be heard over you,
and will cry bitterly.
They will cast up dust on their heads.
They will wallow in the ashes.
³¹ They will make themselves bald for you,
and clothe themselves with sackcloth.
They will weep for you in bitterness of soul,
with bitter mourning.
³² In their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you,
and lament over you, saying,
'Who is there like Tyre,
like her who is brought to silence in the middle of the sea?'
³³ When your wares came from the seas,
you filled many peoples.
You enriched the kings of the earth
with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.
³⁴ In the time that you were broken by the seas,
in the depths of the waters,
your merchandise and all your company
fell within you.
³⁵ All the inhabitants of the islands
are astonished at you,
and their kings are horribly afraid.
They are troubled in their face.
³⁶ The merchants among the peoples hiss at you.
You have come to a terrible end,
and you will be no more." ' "

"Because your heart is lifted up,
and you have said, 'I am a god,
I sit in the seat of God,
in the middle of the seas;'
yet you are man, and no god,
though you set your heart as the heart of a god—
³ behold, you are wiser than Daniel.
There is no secret that is hidden from you.
⁴ By your wisdom and by your understanding
you have gotten yourself riches,
and have gotten gold and silver
into your treasuries.
⁵ By your great wisdom and by your trading
you have increased your riches,
and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—"
⁶ " 'therefore koh amar Adonai YHWH:
"Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,
⁷ therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you,
the terrible of the nations.
They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.
They will defile your brightness.
⁸ They will bring you down to the pit.
You will die the death of those who are slain
in the heart of the seas.
⁹ Will you yet say before him who kills you, 'I am God'?
But you are man, and not God,
in the hand of him who wounds you.
¹⁰ You will die the death of the uncircumcised
by the hand of strangers;
for I have spoken it," n'um Adonai YHWH.' "

"You were the seal of full measure,
full of wisdom,
and perfect in beauty.
¹³ You were in Eden, the garden of God.
Every precious stone adorned you:
ruby, topaz, emerald,
chrysolite, onyx, jasper,
sapphire,* turquoise, and beryl.
Gold work of tambourines
and of pipes was in you.
They were prepared
in the day that you were created.
¹⁴ You were the anointed cherub who covers.
Then I set you up on the holy mountain of God.
You have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire.
¹⁵ You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created,
until unrighteousness was found in you.
¹⁶ By the abundance of your commerce,
your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned.
Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God's mountain.
I have destroyed you, covering cherub,
from the middle of the stones of fire.
¹⁷ Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty.
You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor.
I have cast you to the ground.
I have laid you before kings,
that they may see you.
¹⁸ By the multitude of your iniquities,
in the unrighteousness of your commerce,
you have profaned your sanctuaries.
Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you.
It has devoured you.
I have turned you to ashes on the earth
in the sight of all those who see you.
¹⁹ All those who know you among the peoples
will be astonished at you.
You have become a terror,
and you will exist no more." ' "

"Behold, I am against you, Sidon.
I will be glorified among you.
Then they will know ki-ani YHWH,
when I have executed judgments in her,
and am sanctified in her.
²³ For I will send pestilence into her,
and blood into her streets.
The wounded will fall within her,
with the sword on her on every side.
Then they will know ki-ani YHWH.

"Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
ha-tannim ha-gadol that lies in the middle of his y'orim,
that has said, 'My y'or is my own, and I have made it for myself.'
⁴ I will put hooks in your jaws,
and I will make the fish of your y'orim stick to your scales.
I will bring you up out of the middle of your y'orim,
with all the fish of your y'orim
which stick to your scales.
⁵ I'll cast you out into the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your y'orim.
You'll fall on the open field.
You won't be brought together or gathered.
I have given you for food to the animals of the earth
and to the birds of the sky.

"Wail, 'Alas for the day!'
³ For the day is near,
even the LORD's day is near.
It will be a day of clouds,
a time (for doom) of the nations.
⁴ A sword will come on Egypt,
and anguish will be in Ethiopia,
when the slain fall in Egypt.
They take away her multitude,
and her foundations are broken down.

"They also who uphold Egypt will fall.
The pride of her power will come down.
They will fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh,"
n'um Adonai YHWH.
⁷ "They will be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate.
Her cities will be among the cities that are wasted.
⁸ They will know ki-ani YHWH
when I have set a fire in Egypt,
and all her helpers are destroyed.

^30:10 " 'Koh amar Adonai YHWH:
"I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease,
by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
¹¹ He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations,
will be brought in to destroy the land.
They will draw their swords against Egypt,
and fill the land with the slain.
¹² I will make the rivers dry,
and will sell the land into the hand of evil men.
I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein,
by the hand of foreigners.
I, the LORD, have spoken it."

^30:13 " 'Koh amar Adonai YHWH: "I will also destroy the idols,
and I will cause the images to cease from Nof (Memphis).
There will be no more a prince from the land of Egypt.
I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
¹⁴ I will make Pathros desolate,
and will set a fire in Zoan,
and will execute judgments b'No (on Thebes).
¹⁵ I will pour my wrath on Sin,
the stronghold of Egypt.
I will cut off the multitude of No.
¹⁶ I will set a fire in Egypt;
Sin will be in great anguish.
Thebes will be broken up.
Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime.
¹⁷ The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth will fall by the sword. They will go into captivity.
¹⁸ At Tehaphnehes also the day will withdraw itself,
when I break the yokes of Egypt there.
The pride of her power will cease in her.
As for her, a cloud will cover her,
and her daughters will go into captivity.
¹⁹ Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt.
Then they will know ki-ani YHWH." ' "

'Whom are you like in your greatness?
³ Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon
with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade,
of high stature;
and its top was among the thick boughs.
⁴ The waters nourished it.
The deep made it to grow.
Its rivers ran
all around the place of its planting.
It sent out its streams
to all the trees of the field.
⁵ Therefore its stature was exalted
above all the trees of the field;
and its boughs were multiplied.
Its branches became long
by reason of many waters,
when it spread them out.
⁶ All the birds of the sky
made their nests in its boughs.
Under its branches, all the animals of the field
gave birth to their young.
All great nations
lived under its shadow.
⁷ Thus it was beautiful in its greatness,
in the length of its branches;
for its root was by many waters.
⁸ The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it.
The cypress trees were not like its branches.
The pine trees were not like its branches;
nor was any tree in the garden of God
like it in its beauty. ⁹ I made it beautiful
by the multitude of its branches,
so that all the trees of Eden,
that were in the garden of God, envied it.'

"You were likened to a young lion of the nations;
yet you are as a monster in the seas.
You broke out with your rivers,
and troubled the waters with your feet,
and fouled their rivers."

"I will spread out my net on you
with a company of many peoples.
They will bring you up in my net.
⁴ I will leave you on the land.
I will cast you out on the open field,
and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you.
I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.
⁵ I will lay your flesh on the mountains,
and fill the valleys with your refuse.
⁶ I will also water the land in which you swim with your blood,
even to the mountains.
The watercourses will be full of you.
⁷ When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens
and make their stars dark.
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon won't give its light.
⁸ I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you,
and set darkness on your land,"
n'um Adonai YHWH.

They will bring the pride of Egypt to nothing,
and all its multitude will be destroyed.
¹³ I will destroy also all its animals
from beside many waters.
The foot of man won't trouble them any more,
nor will the hoofs of animals trouble them.
¹⁴ Then I will make their waters clear,
and cause their rivers to run like oil," n'um Adonai YHWH.
¹⁵ "When I make the land of Egypt desolate and waste,
a land destitute of that of which it was full,
when I strike all those who dwell therein,
then they will know ki-ani YHWH.

¹⁹ Whom do you surpass in beauty?
Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.