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You ships should return to Tarshish.
    You people living near the sea should be sad.
Look at your once happy city!
    Look at your old, old city!
People from that city have traveled
    far away to live.
Who planned Tyre’s destruction?
    Tyre made others rich.
Her merchants were treated like princes.
    Her traders were greatly respected.

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Cross over to Tarshish;(A)
    wail, you people of the island.
Is this your city of revelry,(B)
    the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
    to settle in far-off lands?
Who planned this against Tyre,
    the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants(C) are princes,
    whose traders(D) are renowned in the earth?

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