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Is this your jubilant city?
Whose antiquity is from long ago,
whose feet have taken her
    to settle in far off lands?
Who planned this against Tyre,
the crowning city,
whose merchants were princes,
whose traders were the honored of earth?
Adonai-Tzva’ot has planned it,
to defile the pride of all glory,
to shame all the honored of earth.

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Is this your city of revelry,(A)
    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(B) are princes,
    whose traders(C) are renowned in the earth?
The Lord Almighty planned(D) it,
    to bring down(E) her pride in all her splendor
    and to humble(F) all who are renowned(G) on the earth.

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