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Is this your vibrant city
    founded in the days of old,
and whose feet have led her away
    to settle in distant lands?
Who has devised this plan
    against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes
    and whose traders were held in the highest esteem
    throughout the earth?
The Lord of hosts has devised this plan
    to deflate the glory of the proud
    and to humiliate the honored men of the 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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