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    sailing over deep waters.
They brought you grain from Egypt[a]
    and harvests from along the Nile.
You were the marketplace of the world.

But now you are put to shame, city of Sidon,
    for Tyre, the fortress of the sea, says,[b]
“Now I am childless;
    I have no sons or daughters.”
When Egypt hears the news about Tyre,
    there will be great sorrow.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:3 Hebrew from Shihor, a branch of the Nile River.
  2. 23:4 Or for the god of the sea says; Hebrew reads for the sea, the fortress of the sea, says.

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