Isaiah 23

¹The burden against Tyre. Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, So that there is no house, no harbor; From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.

²Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland, You merchants of Sidon, Whom those who cross the sea have filled.

³And on great waters the grain of Shihor, The harvest of the River, is her revenue; And she is a marketplace for the nations.

⁴Be ashamed, O Sidon; For the sea has spoken, The strength of the sea, saying, “I do not labor, nor bring forth children; Neither do I rear young men, Nor bring up virgins.”

⁵When the report reaches Egypt, They also will be in agony at the report of Tyre.

⁶Cross over to Tarshish; Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland!

⁷Is this your joyous city, Whose antiquity is from ancient days, Whose feet carried her far off to dwell?

⁸Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, Whose merchants are princes, Whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

⁹The Lord To bring to dishonor the pride of all glory, To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

¹⁰Overflow through your land like the River, O daughter of Tarshish; There is no more strength.

¹¹He stretched out His hand over the sea, He shook the kingdoms; The Lord To destroy its strongholds.

¹²And He said, “You will rejoice no more, O you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross over to Cyprus; There also you will have no rest.”

¹³Behold, the land of the Chaldeans, This people which was not; Assyria founded it for wild beasts of the desert. They set up its towers, They raised up its palaces, And brought it to ruin.

¹⁴Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For your strength is laid waste.

¹⁵Now it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

¹⁶“Take a harp, go about the city, You forgotten harlot; Make sweet melody, sing many songs, That you may be remembered.”

¹⁷And it shall be, at the end of seventy years, that the Lord

¹⁸Her gain and her pay will be set apart for the Lord