Ezekiel 27:24-25

27:24 They traded with you choice garments, purple clothes and embroidered work, and multicolored carpets, bound and reinforced with cords; these were among your merchandise. 27:25 The ships of Tarshish ¹  were the transports for your merchandise.

“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 27:33-34

27:33 When your products went out from the seas,

you satisfied many peoples;

with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise

you enriched the kings of the earth.

27:34 Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters;

your merchandise and all your company have sunk ²  along with you. ³ 

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¹ tn Or perhaps “Large merchant ships.” The expression “ships of Tarshish” may describe a class of vessel, that is, large oceangoing merchant ships.

² tn Heb “fallen.”

³ tn Heb “in the midst of you.”