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17 They’ll sing this mourning song for you:

“How lost you are,
    you inhabited city,
        that was built in the middle of the sea!
How famous you were!
    How strong on the sea!
She and her inhabitants
    inflicted[a] terror to everyone
        who lived within her.”

18 ‘Now the coastland inhabitants
    will tremble on the day that you fall.
The coastland inhabitants,
    who make their living from[b] the sea,
        will be terrified when you pass away!’

19 “This is what the Lord God says: ‘When I turn your city into a ghost town, when I flood you with deep water that covers you completely,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:17 Lit. inhabitants who inflicted
  2. Ezekiel 26:18 Lit. who are by

17 Then they will take up a lament(A) concerning you and say to you:

“‘How you are destroyed, city of renown,
    peopled by men of the sea!
You were a power on the seas,
    you and your citizens;
you put your terror
    on all who lived there.(B)
18 Now the coastlands tremble(C)
    on the day of your fall;
the islands in the sea
    are terrified at your collapse.’(D)

19 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths(E) over you and its vast waters cover you,(F)

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