“When your wares went forth from the seas, you satisfied many peoples,
You enriched the kings of the earth, with your abundant wealth and your merchandise,
At the time that you were broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters,
Your merchandise and all your company, sank in the midst of you.”
Now the poem contrasts what they accomplished with what they have come to. They went out over the seas and satisfied the world with their merchandise and their trading riches, but now they have been broken up by those seas, and all their wealth is engulfed by the sea, along with their ship's company. Triumph has turned into disaster because she exalted herself, and challenged Yahweh.