² Be silent,^(A) you people of the island
    and you merchants^(B) of Sidon,^(C)
    whom the seafarers have enriched.

⁴ Be ashamed, Sidon,^(A) and you fortress of the sea,
    for the sea has spoken:
“I have neither been in labor nor given birth;^(B)
    I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”

⁸ Men of Sidon and Arvad^(A) were your oarsmen;
    your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors.^(B)