The Shipwreck and Global Mourning

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Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.

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Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in your midst, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.

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At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake.

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All who handled the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand on the land,

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and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

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and they shall make themselves bald for you, and clothe them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.

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In their wailing they shall 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 midst of the sea?

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When your wares went out of the seas, you filled many peoples; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.

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In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company fell in your midst.

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All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.

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The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.

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