Thy tacklings are loosed; they did not strengthen well their mast, nor could they spread the sail: : then the prey of a great spoil shall be divided; even the lame shall take prey.

Great

For thus hath the Lord GOD said: I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; I shall cause the abyss to come up over thee and the many waters shall cover thee.

The rivers have lifted up, O LORD; the rivers have lifted up their voice; the rivers lift up their waves.

And he said unto me, The waters which thou hast seen, where the whore sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

The east

In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy commerce and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.

Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

But not long after, there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.

General references

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for your strength is laid waste.

In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy commerce and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.