23. “ ‘People of Haran, Canneh, Eden, and the traders of Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad became merchants for you.
24. They were paid with the best clothes, blue cloth, cloth with designs sewed on, carpets of many colors, and tightly wound ropes.
25. “ ‘Trading shipscarried the things you sold.You were like a ship full of heavy cargoin the middle of the sea.
26. The men who rowed youbrought you out into the high seas,but the east wind broke you to piecesin the middle of the sea.
27. Your wealth, your trade, your goods,your seamen, your sailors, your workers,your traders, your warriors,and everyone else on boardsank into the seaon the day your ship was wrecked.