Isaiah 23:4-6

Easy-to-Read Version

⁴ Sidon, you should be very sad,
    because now the Sea and the Fort of the Sea^[a] say,
“I have no children.
    I have never felt the pain of birth;
I have never given birth to children.
    I have never raised young men and women.”

⁵ When Egypt hears the news about Tyre,
    it will feel the pain of sorrow.
⁶ You ships, try to escape to Tarshish!
    Cry out, you people living near the sea!