The Babylonian Exile

The men of D'dan traded with you. Many coastlands were your customers, giving you ivory tusks and ebony in payment.

Aram traded with you, because you were so wealthy; for your goods they exchanged green feldspar, purple stuff, embroidery, fine linen, coral and rubies.

Y'hudah and the land of Isra'el also traded with you, exchanging for your goods wheat from Minnit, millet, honey, olive oil and resin for healing.

Because you were so wealthy, with such a variety of valuable merchandise, Dammesek traded wine from Helbon and white wool with you.

V'dan and Yavan from Uzal traded ironwork, cassia and aromatic cane for your goods.

D'dan traded with you for riding gear.

Arabia and all the princes of K'dar were your customers; for your goods they traded lambs, rams and goats.

The traders of Sh'va and Ra'mah exchanged the best quality spices, all kinds of precious stones and gold for your goods.

The merchants of Haran, Kaneh and 'Eden, who traded also with Sh'va, Ashur and Kilmad,

brought you in exchange for your goods rich clothes, cloaks made of blue material and embroidery, and cedar-lined chests filled with multicolored clothing and bound with cords.

"Tarshish" ships transported your imports and exports. "'So you were full, loaded down, surrounded by the sea.

Your oarsmen brought you through heavy seas. But the east wind will break you surrounded by the sea.

Your riches, your goods, your merchandise, your crew, your pilots, your ship-sealers, your traders, all your warriors aboard, and all the others in the ship with you will sink surrounded by the sea on the day of your shipwreck.

When they hear the cries of your pilots, the mainland coasts will tremble.

The oarsmen, crew and pilots will disembark and stand on shore,

mourning aloud at your fate, crying bitterly, throwing dust on their heads, rolling in the ashes,

shaving their heads bald for you, wrapping themselves in sackcloth, with heartfelt bitterness weeping for you in bitter lamentation.

Wailing, they will raise a lament for you; this will be their lament for you: "'"Who anywhere in the sea has ever been silenced like Tzor?

When your wares came forth from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with your vast wealth and variety of goods you enriched the kings of the earth.

But now you have been wrecked by the waves, sunk in the watery depths; your merchandise and all your people have gone down with you.

All who live along the coasts are aghast at you; their kings are horribly afraid, their faces are convulsed;

the merchants among the peoples are gasping at your fate; you are an object of terror, and you will cease to exist."'"

The word of ADONAI came to me:

"Human being, tell the prince of Tzor that Adonai ELOHIM says: 'Because you are so proud and have said, "I am a god; I sit on the throne of God, surrounded by the sea"; yet you are a man, not God, even though you think that you think like God.

Sure, you are wiser than Dani'el! No secret can be hidden from you!