² Be silent,^(A) you people of the island
    and you merchants^(B) of Sidon,^(C)
    whom the seafarers have enriched.

³ On the great waters
    came the grain of the Shihor;^(A)
the harvest of the Nile^[a](B) was the revenue of Tyre,^(C)
    and she became the marketplace of the nations.

⁸ Who planned this against Tyre,
    the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants^(A) are princes,
    whose traders^(B) are renowned in the earth?