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Isaiah

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Chapter 23

¹The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them. ²Be silent, you inhabitants of the coast, you merchants of Sidon, whose messengers crossed the sea ³and were on many waters. The grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue, and she was the market of the nations. ⁴Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying: “I have not travailed, nor given birth; I have not reared young men or brought up young women.” ⁵When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish over the report about Tyre. ⁶Cross over to Tarshish; wail, O inhabitants of the coast! ⁷Is this your joyous city, whose origin is from ancient times, whose feet carried her to settle far away? ⁸Who has purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth? ⁹The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth. ¹⁰Cross over your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint anymore. ¹¹He has stretched out his hand over the sea; he has shaken the kingdoms; the LORD has given command concerning Canaan to destroy its strongholds. ¹²And he said: “You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon; arise, cross over to Cyprus, even there you will have no rest.” ¹³Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not; Assyria appointed it for the wild beasts. They erected their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin. ¹⁴Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste! ¹⁵In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute: ¹⁶“Take a harp; go about the city, O forgotten prostitute! Make sweet melody; sing many songs, that you may be remembered.” ¹⁷At the end of seventy years, the LORD will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. ¹⁸Her merchandise and her wages will be holy to the LORD; it will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the LORD.