The word of the Lord came to me: 'Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre, and say to Tyre, 'You who dwell at the entrance of the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands, thus says the Lord God, initiating an elaborate funeral dirge that will employ the metaphor of Tyre as a magnificent ship to express her commercial glory and imminent destruction. The 'entrance of the sea' and 'merchant' characterizations establish Tyre's identity as a maritime commercial hub whose prosperity depended on ocean trade. This lament genre serves to immortalize the memory of Tyre's fall even as it announces destruction.

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