1Then Yahweh gave me another message. He said:
2“You human, give to the king of Tyre this message from me, Yahweh the Lord:
3You think that you are wiser than Daniel was,
4By being wise and understanding a lot, you have become very rich;
5Yes, it is true that by trading wisely, you have been enabled to become very rich,
6Therefore, this is what Yahweh the Lord says:
7I will now bring a foreign army to attack your country,
8They will bring you down to your grave;
9Then you will certainly not [RHQ] say to those who are killing you,
10You will die like other people who are unacceptable to me die,
11Yahweh also gave me this message:
12“You human, sing a sad/funeral song about the king of Tyre. Say to him, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says:
13You had a wonderful life, as though you were in my beautiful garden in Eden.
14I appointed [DOU] you to be like [MET] a strong angel to guard the people.
15You were completely good in all that you did,
16Then you became busy trading things,
17You were extremely proud
18By committing many sins
19All the people who knew what your city was like previously
20Then Yahweh gave me another message. He said,
21“You human, turn toward Sidon city, and declare the terrible things that will happen to it.
22Give the people of Sidon this message from me, Yahweh the Lord:
23I will send a plague upon you,
24No longer will those who live near you people of Israel hurt you like [MET] painful briers and sharp thorns hurt people. And then the Israeli people will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.”
25And this is also what Yahweh the Lord says: “Some day the people of Israel will live in their own land again, the land that I gave to Jacob, who also served me. I will gather them from distant countries where I have scattered them. And I will reveal to the nations that I am holy among my people.
26My people will live safely in Israel; they will build houses and plant vineyards. And when I punish the nearby nations that despised them, they will know that it is I, Yahweh their God, who has done it.”