And Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon;

The eldest and wisest at Gebal were they, that mended and stopped thy ships. All ships of the sea with their shipment occupied their merchandise in thee.

Thy riches and thy markets, thy traffic, thy seamen, and thy shipmen, they making strong thy breach, and they trafficking thy traffic, and all the men of thy war that are in thee, and in all thy convocation which is in the midst of thee, they shall fall into the heart of the sea, in the day of thy fall.

At the voice of the cry of thy shipmen, the areas shall shake.

All holding the oars, the seamen and the shipmen of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the earth.

"The ungodly is very swift: O that his portion also upon earth were swifter than the running water, which suffereth not the shipman to behold the fair and pleasant vineyards.