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New Testament
Isaiah 23
A Prophecy About Tyre and Sidon
231An oracle about Tyre.
Wail, you ships of Tarshish!
Because Tyre has been destroyed—
2Be silent, you who live along the coast,
you merchants of Sidon,
The grain of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, provided her income.
She was the marketplace of nations.
4Be ashamed, Sidon, fortress by the sea,
because the sea has spoken, saying,
“No longer do I feel the pain of childbirth.
No longer do I have children.
I have no young men to raise,
5When the news comes to Egypt,
they will agonize over the report from Tyre.
6Sail across to Tarshish!
Wail, you island people!
7Is this your joyful city, older than old,
whose feet carried her to settle so far away?
8Who has planned this against Tyre,
the city that crowned kings,
whose merchants were like royal officials,
whose traders were honored around the world?
9The Lord of Armies has planned this,
to strip their pride of all its glory,
to humiliate those who were honored around the world.
like the Nile overflowing its banks.
11He has stretched out his hand over the sea.
He has shaken the kingdoms.
It is the Lord who has ordered the destruction
12He said, “Rejoice no more, virgin daughter of Sidon,
you who have been violated.
But even there you will have no rest.”
13(Compare it to the land of the Chaldeans—this people who have become nothing. It was the Assyrians who made it into a dwelling for wild animals from the desert. They raised up siege towers, tore down citadels, and made it a ruin.)
14Wail, you ships of Tarshish,
because your stronghold is destroyed!
15In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the days of a king's life. After the end of the seventy years, Tyre will be like the prostitute in this song.
16Pick up a lyre.
Go through the city,
you forgotten prostitute.
Play skillfully.
Sing many songs,
so that you might be remembered once again.
17At the end of the seventy years, the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will go back to collecting wages, to selling herself to all the kingdoms of the world, to everyone on the surface of the earth. 18But this time her merchandise and her wages will be dedicated to the Lord. It will not be stored away. Her goods will be for those who live in the presence of the Lord, so that they have enough to eat and clothing that will last.
Footnotes
- 23:1 The meaning of this line is uncertain.
- 23:1 Hebrew Kittim, a term which may include other areas of the Mediterranean besides Cyprus
- 23:2 The translation follows a reading from the Hebrew Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah. The literal reading in the Masoretic text is the one passing over the sea they have replenished you.
- 23:4 The meaning of this figurative statement spoken by the sea is unclear. The sea seems to be lamenting the loss of Tyre, a daughter of the sea.
- 23:10 Or, following a variant, work your land. The text and meaning of this line are uncertain.
- 23:10 Or there is no longer any restraint (or boundary). The Hebrew text and its meaning are uncertain.
- 23:11 Or Phoenicia's. Phoenicia is the Greek name for Canaan.
- 23:12 Hebrew Kittim