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Isaiah 23

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Isaiah 23
An Oracle concerning Tyre
1 # v 12 ; Jer 25.22; 47.4; Ezek 26; 27; 28The oracle concerning Tyre.
Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for your fortress is destroyed.#23.1 Cn: Heb for it is destroyed, without houses
When they came in from Cyprus
they learned of it.
2 # Isa 47.5 Be still, O inhabitants of the coast,
O merchants of Sidon;
your messengers crossed over the sea#23.2 Q ms: MT crossing over the sea, they replenished you
3 # Jer 2.18; Ezek 27.3–23 and were on the mighty waters;
your revenue#23.3 Heb its was the grain of Shihor,
the harvest of the Nile;
you were the merchant of the nations.
4 # Ezek 28.21, 22 Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken,
the fortress of the sea, saying:
“I have neither labored nor given birth;
I have neither reared young men
nor 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!
7 # Isa 22.2; 32.13 Is this your exultant city
whose origin is from days of old,
whose feet carried her
to settle far away?
8Who has planned this
against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes,
whose traders were the honored of the earth?
9 # Job 40.11, 12; Isa 2.11; 5.13; 9.15; 13.11 The Lord of hosts has planned it—
to defile the pride of all glory,
to shame all the honored of the earth.
10Cross over to your own land,
O ships of#23.10 Cn Compare Gk: Heb like the Nile, daughter Tarshish;
this is a harbor#23.10 Cn: Heb restraint no more.
11 # Isa 14.26; 25.2; 50.2 He has stretched out his hand over the sea;
he has shaken the kingdoms;
the Lord has given command concerning Canaan,
to destroy its fortresses.
12 # v 1 ; Isa 47.1; Rev 18.22He said:
“You will exult no longer,
O oppressed virgin daughter Sidon;
rise, cross over to Cyprus—
even there you will have no rest.”
13 # Isa 10.5, 7 Look at the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people; it was not Assyria. They destined it for wild animals.#23.13 Or This is the people that was not. Assyria founded it for its fleet. They erected their siege towers; they tore down her palaces; they made her a ruin.
14 # v 1 Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for your fortress is destroyed.
15 # Jer 25.11, 22 From that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the lifetime of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song about the prostitute:
16Take a harp;
go about the city,
you forgotten prostitute!
Make sweet melody;
sing many songs,
that you may be remembered.
17 # Rev 17.2 At the end of seventy years, the Lord will visit Tyre, and she will return to her trade and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. 18#Isa 60.5–9; Zech 14.20Her merchandise and her wages will be dedicated to the Lord; her profits#23.18 Heb it will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who live in the presence of the Lord.

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