Isaiah 23
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Chapter 23
A message about Tyre
1This is a message about Tyre.
Weep aloud, you people in the great ships of Tarshish. An enemy has destroyed the port and the houses of Tyre. They heard this news in Cyprus.
2Weep quietly, you people who live on the coast of the sea. Yes, weep, you traders of Sidon city. Your sailors travelled across the sea and you became rich. 3They brought grain to you from Shihor region in Egypt. You received crops that had grown beside the Nile river. Tyre became an important city where traders from many nations came.
4Be ashamed, you people in Sidon. You have become strong because of the sea. But the sea now speaks against you! It says, ‘I have not given birth to any children. I have not taken care of any sons or daughters as a parent should do.’
5When the people in Egypt hear the news about Tyre, they will be very sad and upset.
6Travel to Tarshish! Weep aloud, you people who live on the coast of the sea. 7Tyre is a city where you had many parties. It has been there since long ago. People from this city went to live in foreign countries far away. 8It is a royal city and its traders are princes. They are famous everywhere on earth. So who decided to destroy it?
9The Lord Almighty did that! He decided to show that the pride of those people is useless. He decided to bring all those famous people down low.
10People of Tarshish, now you will have to grow your own crops. Grow them like they do beside the Nile river. Traders no longer come to Tyre to sell their things.
11The Lord has lifted his hand up over the sea. He has made kingdoms shake with fear. He has given his command against Canaan, to destroy all its strong places. #23:11 ‘Canaan’ or ‘Phoenicia’.
12He says to Sidon's people, ‘Your parties have finished! Now it will be a time of pain for you. Move away, if you can! Travel to Cyprus. But you will still not be safe there.’
13Look at what happened in Babylonia. Its people have disappeared! The Assyrian army has made it a place for wild animals to live in. Their soldiers built hills of earth against the city's walls. They climbed over and they destroyed its strong buildings. Babylon's buildings became heaps of stones.
14So weep aloud, you great ships of Tarshish. Enemies have destroyed your strong place.
15At that time people will forget Tyre for 70 years. That is how long one king lives. At the end of 70 years, there will be a change in Tyre. It will happen to them like the song about the prostitute:
16‘Prostitute that people have forgotten,
walk about the city with your harp.
Play it well. Sing many songs.
Then people will remember you again.’
17At the end of 70 years, the Lord will be kind to Tyre. People from all the nations of the world will come to Tyre to buy things. Tyre will receive their money, like the prostitute in the song. 18But the money that Tyre receives will belong to the Lord. Tyre's traders will not hide their riches or store them. Their money will buy plenty of food and beautiful clothes for people who worship the Lord.
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Isaiah 23
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The Burden against Tyre
(Ezekiel 26:1–21)
1This is the burden against Tyre:
Wail, O ships of Tarshish,#23:1 Or Wail, O fleet of trading ships; also in verse 14
for Tyre is laid waste,
without house or harbor.
Word has reached them
from the land of Cyprus.#23:1 Hebrew Kittim; also in verse 12
2Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland,
you merchants of Sidon,
whose traders have crossed the sea.#23:2 DSS and LXX; MT whom the seafarers have enriched
3On the great waters
came the grain of Shihor;
the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre;
she was the merchant of the nations.
4Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea,
for the sea has spoken:
“I have not been in labor
or given birth.
I have not raised young men
or brought up young women.”
5When the report reaches Egypt,
they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.
6Cross over to Tarshish;
wail, O inhabitants of the coastland!
7Is this your jubilant city,
whose origin is from antiquity,
whose feet have taken her
to settle far away?
8Who planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose traders are princes,
whose merchants are renowned on the earth?
9The Lord of Hosts planned it,
to defile all its glorious beauty,
to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.
10Cultivate #23:10 DSS and some LXX manuscripts; MT Overflow your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish;
there is no longer a harbor.
11The Lord has stretched out His hand over the sea;
He has made kingdoms tremble.
He has given a command
that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.
12He said, “You shall rejoice no more,
O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon.
Get up and cross over to Cyprus—
even there you will find no rest.”
13Look at the land of the Chaldeans #23:13 That is, the Babylonians—
a people now of no account.
The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures;
they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces.
They brought it to ruin.
14Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for your harbor has been destroyed!
15At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
16“Take up your harp,
stroll through the city,
O forgotten harlot.
Make sweet melody,
sing many a song,
so you will be remembered.”
17And at the end of seventy years, the Lord will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. 18Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the Lord; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the Lord, for abundant food and fine clothing.
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