“At the sound of the cry of your rope-pullers, the countryside will shake,
And all that handle the oar, the mariners, all the rope-pullers of the sea,
Will come down from their ships, they will stand on the land,
And will cause their voice to be heard over you, and will cry bitterly,
And will cast up dust on their heads, they will wallow themselves in ashes,
And they will make themselves bald for you, and clothe themselves with sackcloth,
And they will weep for you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.
And in their wailing, they will raise up a lamentation for you,
And lament over you, ‘Who is like Tyre?
Like her who is brought to silence, in the midst of the sea?' ”
In awareness of their distress the other ships' crews will gather on the shore, and they will cry out and weep bitterly and mourn over their passing. The dust and ashes, the baldness and sackcloth, are all signs of distress. And she who ruled the waves will find herself destroyed by the waves. She had said, ‘I am perfect in beauty', but now the cry is, ‘Who is like Tyre, who has come to nothing in the midst of her kingdom the sea?' How were the mighty fallen. Thus will Yahweh do to proud and greedy Tyre. She will lose everything.