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24 offering in return rich garments, embroidered purple cloaks, and materials of many colors bound with cords that were firmly woven.

25 The ships of Tarshish were employed
    as carriers for your wares.
Therefore, you were filled and heavily laden
    as you sailed the high seas.
26 Your oarsmen rowed through deep waters
    on their journey home.
But the east wind[a] wrecked you
    when you were far out at sea.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:26 East wind: the Babylonians, who, like the wind, destroy every country and people.