Isaiah - Chapter 23 | New International Version

  • 1. An oracle concerning Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish! For Tyre is destroyed and left without house or harbor. From the land of Cyprus word has come to them.
  • 2. Be silent, you people of the island and you merchants of Sidon, whom the seafarers have enriched.
  • 3. On the great waters came the grain of the Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre, and she became the marketplace of the nations.
  • 4. Be ashamed, O Sidon, and you, O fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: "I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters."
  • 5. When word comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.
  • 6. Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you people of the island.
  • 7. Is this your city of revelry, the old, old city, whose feet have taken her to settle in far-off lands?
  • 8. Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are renowned in the earth?
  • 9. The LORD Almighty planned it, to bring low the pride of all glory and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.
  • 10. Till your land as along the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish, for you no longer have a harbor.
  • 11. The LORD has stretched out his hand over the sea and made its kingdoms tremble. He has given an order concerning Phoenicia that her fortresses be destroyed.
  • 12. He said, "No more of your reveling, O Virgin Daughter of Sidon, now crushed! "Up, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest."
  • 13. Look at the land of the Babylonians, this people that is now of no account! The Assyrians have made it a place for desert creatures; they raised up their siege towers, they stripped its fortresses bare and turned it into a ruin.
  • 14. Wail, you ships of Tarshish; your fortress is destroyed!
  • 15. At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king's life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:
  • 16. Take up a harp, walk through the city, O prostitute forgotten; play the harp well, sing many a song, so that you will be remembered.
  • 17. At the end of seventy years, the LORD will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire as a prostitute and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
  • 18. Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the LORD; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothes.
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