| Isa. 23:1 |
The burden concerning Tyre: / Howl, O ships of Tarshish, / For it is destroyed--lacking house, / Lacking entrance. From [as far away as] the land of Kittim / It is told to them. |
| Isa. 23:2 |
Hush, you inhabitants of the coastland, / You, whom the merchants of Sidon, / Who cross the sea, have replenished. |
| Isa. 23:3 |
And by [way of ] many waters / The grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; / And she was profit to the nations. |
| Isa. 23:4 |
Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, / The stronghold of the sea, saying, / I have not been in labor nor given birth; / Neither have I brought up young men, / [Nor] have I raised virgins. |
| Isa. 23:5 |
When the report [reaches] Egypt, / They will writhe in pain at the report concerning Tyre. |
| Isa. 23:6 |
Cross over to Tarshish; / Howl, you inhabitants of the coastland. |
| Isa. 23:7 |
Is this your jubilant [city,] / Whose antiquity is from the days of antiquity, / Whose feet carried her off afar to sojourn? |
| Isa. 23:8 |
Who has purposed this / Against Tyre, the giver of crowns, / Whose merchants were princes, / Whose traders were the honorable of the earth? |
| Isa. 23:9 |
Jehovah of hosts has purposed it, / To defile the pride of all beauty, / To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. |
| Isa. 23:10 |
Overflow your land like a river, O daughter of Tarshish; / There is no more restraint. |
| Isa. 23:11 |
He has stretched out His hand over the sea; / He has shaken kingdoms. / Jehovah has given commandment concerning Canaan / To destroy its strongholds. |
| Isa. 23:12 |
And He has said, You shall not continue to exult any longer, / O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon. / Arise; cross over to Kittim-- / There also you will have no rest. |
| Isa. 23:13 |
See the land of the Chaldeans, this people! They were not--the Assyrians assigned it to desert animals; they raised their siege towers; they stripped their citadels; they brought it to ruin. |
| Isa. 23:14 |
Howl, O ships of Tarshish, / For your stronghold is destroyed. |
| Isa. 23:15 |
In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of the seventy years Tyre will be like [her in] the harlot's song: |
| Isa. 23:16 |
Take a harp; / Compass the city, / Forgotten harlot. / Play well; / Abound in song, / That you may be remembered. |
| Isa. 23:17 |
And at the end of the seventy years Jehovah will visit Tyre. And she will return to the wages of her harlotry and will be a harlot to all the kingdoms of the earth on land's surface. |
| Isa. 23:18 |
And her profit and the wages of her harlotry will be dedicated to Jehovah; it will not be stored up, nor will it be hoarded, for her profit will be for those who dwell before Jehovah, as [their] sufficient food and [their] choice clothing. |