Isaiah 23 Legacy Standard Bible

An Oracle Concerning Tyre

23 The ^[a]oracle concerning ^(A)Tyre.

Wail, O ^(B)ships of ^(C)Tarshish,
For Tyre is destroyed, without house or ^[b]^(D)harbor;
It is revealed to them from the land of ^[c]^(E)Cyprus.
²^(F)Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You merchants of Sidon;
^[d]Your messengers crossed the sea
³And were on many waters.
^(G)The ^[e]grain of ^[f]^(H)Shihor, the harvest of the Nile was her revenue;
And she was the nations’ ^(I)gain.
⁴Be ashamed, O ^(J)Sidon;
For the sea speaks, the strong defense of the sea, saying,
“I have neither travailed nor given birth;
I have neither brought up choice men nor reared virgins.”
⁵When the report reaches Egypt,
They will be in ^(K)travail at the report of Tyre.
⁶Pass over to ^(L)Tarshish;
Wail, O inhabitants of the coastland.
⁷Is this your ^(M)exultant city,
Whose origin is from days of old,
Whose feet used to lead her to sojourn in distant places?

⁸Who has counseled this against Tyre, ^(N)the bestower of crowns,
Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?
⁹^(O)Yahweh of hosts has counseled it, to ^(P)defile the pride of all beauty,
To make contemptuous all the ^(Q)honored of the earth.
¹⁰^[g]Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish;
There is no more ^[h]restraint.
¹¹He has ^(R)stretched His hand out ^(S)over the sea;
He has ^(T)made the kingdoms tremble;
Yahweh has given a command concerning Canaan to ^(U)demolish its strong defenses.

¹²So He said, “^(V)You shall exult no more, O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon.
Arise, pass over to ^[i]^(W)Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.”

¹³Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people which was not; ^(X)Assyria established it for ^(Y)desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, ^(Z)they made it a ruin.

¹⁴Wail, O ^(AA)ships of Tarshish,
For your strong defense is destroyed.

¹⁵Now it will be in that day, that Tyre will be forgotten for ^(AB)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:

¹⁶Take your harp, walk about the city,
O forgotten harlot;
Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs,
That you may be remembered.

¹⁷And it will be at ^(AC)the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot’s wages and will ^(AD)play the harlot with all the kingdoms ^[j]on the face of the earth. ¹⁸And her ^(AE)gain and her harlot’s wages will be ^(AF)set apart to Yahweh; it will not be treasured up or hoarded, but her gain will become sufficient food and choice attire for those who inhabit the presence of Yahweh.

Footnotes

Isaiah 23:1 Or burden of
Isaiah 23:1 Lit entering
Isaiah 23:1 Heb Kittim
Isaiah 23:2 As in DSS; M.T. Who passed over the sea, they replenished you
Isaiah 23:3 Lit seed
Isaiah 23:3 Part of the Nile
Isaiah 23:10 Lit Pass over
Isaiah 23:10 Possibly girdle, shipyard
Isaiah 23:12 Heb Kittim
Isaiah 23:17 Lit of the earth on the face of the land

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