Isaiah 23
23
1A message about Tyre. Howl, people on the ships of Tarshish! Tyre has been destroyed—nothing is left of the houses and the harbor. They heard the news from the people of Cyprus. 2Stay shocked into silence, people of the coastlands, merchants of Sidon, and sailors. 3Egyptian grain#23:3. “Egyptian grain”: literally, “the grain of Shihor.” came across the wide oceans. The Nile's harvest was what made Tyre money; she was the merchant to the nations.
4Feel the shame, Sidon! For the fortress of the sea says,#23:4. Tyre was called the daughter of Sidon (Isaiah 23:12), so the words that follow could be Sidon mourning the loss of her “daughter.” Alternatively it could be Tyre, mourning the loss of her children (inhabitants). “I have no children, having never been in labor or given birth. I have not brought up young men or brought up young women.”
5When the news about Tyre reaches Egypt they will be in agony.
6Sail across to Tarshish! Howl, people of the coastlands! 7Is this really your triumphant city, whose beginnings are from the distant past, who has sent out people to colonize faraway places? 8Who planned this attack on Tyre? Tyre, who created kingdoms, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were honored around the world! 9The Lord Almighty planned it, to humble its pride in all its glory, and to bring down all who receive worldly honor.
10Work your land, people of Tarshish, as they do beside the Nile, for you don't have a harbor anymore.#23:10. The Hebrew of this verse is unclear. It apparently suggests that the people of Tarshish should turn to agriculture now that there won't be any more trade from the mother city of Tyre. 11The Lord held his hand out over the sea and shook kingdoms.#23:11. “Kingdoms”: presumably the other Phoenician kingdoms along the coast from Tyre. He has condemned Phoenicia, giving the order to destroy their fortresses. 12He said, “Don't celebrate any more, mistreated virgin daughter of Sidon. Go and sail over to Cyprus—however, even there you won't find rest.”
13Look at the country of the Babylonians, this people that are not as they used to be! The Assyrians have turned it into a place for desert animals. They set up their siege towers, they demolished the fortresses, and ruined the country.
14Howl, people on the ships of Tarshish because your fortress is destroyed!
15At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, a king's lifetime, as it were. But at the end of these seventy years, Tyre will be like the song about a prostitute, 16“Take a lyre and walk around the city, forgotten prostitute! Play and sing so people will remember you!” 17After seventy years, the Lord will restore Tyre. But then she will go back to hiring herself out as a prostitute, selling herself to all the kingdoms of the world. 18However, her profits and what she earns will be consecrated to the Lord. They won't be kept or saved up, for her business earnings will go to those who worship the Lord, to provide them with plenty of food and good clothes.
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Yeshayah 23
23
1The massa (burden) of Tzor. Howl, ye oniyyot (ships) of Tarshish; for it is destroyed, so that there is no bais, no entering in; from the Eretz Kittim (Land of Cyprus) niglah (it is revealed) to them.
2Be still, ye inhabitants of the ee (isle, island); thou whom the sokher (merchant) of Tzidon, that pass over the yam, have enriched.
3And by mayim rabbim, the zera (grain) of Shikhor,#23:3 Nile the katzir (harvest) of the Shikhor,#23:3 Nile is her tevuah (produce, income); and she is a Sakhar Goyim (market bazaar of nations).
4Be thou ashamed, O Tzidon; for the yam hath spoken, even the ma'oz (fortress) of the yam, saying, I travail not, nor give birth, neither do I rear bochurim, nor bring up betulot.
5As at the report concerning Mitzrayim, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tzor.
6Cross ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the ee (isle, island).
7Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? Her own raglayim shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
8Who hath devised this against Tzor, the crowning city, whose sokharim (merchants) are sarim (princes), whose traders are the nikhbadei Eretz (honored of the Earth).
9 Hashem Tzva'os hath devised it, to demean the ga'on (pride) of every beauty, and to humble all the nikhbadei Eretz.
10Pass through thy land like the Nile, O Bat Tarshish; there is no more restraint.
11He stretched out His Yad over the yam, He shook the mamlakhot (kingdoms); Hashem hath given a commandment against Kena'an, to destroy her ma'a'uzim (fortresses).
12And He said, Thou shalt no more exult, O thou oppressed Betulah, Bat Tzidon; arise, pass over to Kittim (Cyprus); there also shalt thou have no rest.
13Behold, Eretz Kasdim (land of Chaldeans); this people was not, till the Assyrian made it for wild creatures; they raise up the siege towers thereof, they destroyed the palaces thereof; and turned her to ruin.
14Howl, ye oniyyot Tarshish; for your stronghold is destroyed.
15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tzor shall be forgotten shiv'im shanah, according to the yamim of melech echad; after the end of shiv'im shanah shall Tzor sing as a zonah.
16Take a kinnor, go about the Ir, thou zonah that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many shir, that thou mayest be remembered.
17And it shall come to pass at the end of shiv'im shanah, that Hashem will visit Tzor, and she shall return to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the mamlakhot HaAretz upon the face of ha'adamah.
18And her gain and her hire shall be kodesh to Hashem; it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her#23:18 Tzorʼs earnings shall be for them that live before Hashem, to eat sufficiently, and for choice clothing.
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