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The
Fall of Tyre |
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| Isaiah 23:1 |
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The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of
Tarshish, For Tyre is destroyed, without house or harbor; It is reported to them
from the land of Cyprus. |
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| Isaiah 23:2 |
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Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You merchants of Sidon; Your messengers crossed the sea |
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| Isaiah 23:3 |
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And were on many waters. The grain of the Nile,
the harvest of the River was her revenue; And she was the market of nations. |
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| Isaiah 23:4 |
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Be ashamed, O Sidon; For the sea speaks, the
stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have neither travailed nor given birth, I have
neither brought up young men nor reared virgins." |
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| Isaiah 23:5 |
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When the report reaches Egypt, They will be
in anguish at the report of Tyre. |
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| Isaiah 23:6 |
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Pass over to Tarshish; Wail, O inhabitants of
the coastland. |
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| Isaiah 23:7 |
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Is this your jubilant city, Whose origin is
from antiquity, Whose feet used to carry her to colonize distant places? |
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| Isaiah 23:8 |
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Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower
of crowns, Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the
earth? |
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| Isaiah 23:9 |
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The LORD of hosts has planned it, to defile
the pride of all beauty, To despise all the honored of the earth. |
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| Isaiah 23:10 |
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Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter
of Tarshish, There is no more restraint. |
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| Isaiah 23:11 |
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He has stretched His hand out over the sea,
He has made the kingdoms tremble; The LORD has given a command concerning Canaan
to demolish its strongholds. |
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| Isaiah 23:12 |
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He has said, "You shall exult no more, O crushed
virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Cyprus; even there you will find
no rest." |
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| Isaiah 23:13 |
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Behold, the land of the Chaldeans--this is the
people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures--they erected
their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin. |
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| Isaiah 23:14 |
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Wail, O ships of Tarshish, For your stronghold
is destroyed. |
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| Isaiah 23:15 |
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Now in 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 harlot: |
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| Isaiah 23:16 |
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Take your harp, walk about the city, O forgotten
harlot; Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs, That you may be remembered.
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| Isaiah 23:17 |
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It will come about at the end of seventy years
that the LORD will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot's wages and
will play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. |
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| Isaiah 23:18 |
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Her gain and her harlot's wages will be set
apart to the LORD; it will not be stored up or hoarded, but her gain will become
sufficient food and choice attire for those who dwell in the presence of the LORD. |
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