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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Isaiah 23 New American Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/23.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/isaiah/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NABRE</a> > Isaiah 23</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/22.htm" title="Isaiah 22">◄</a> Isaiah 23 <a href="../isaiah/24.htm" title="Isaiah 24">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch29023" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn29023" class="cn"></h1> <section> <h2 class="ahaft">Tyre and Sidon</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="sl1f"><span id="v29023001" class="ver">1</span><a id="rfn29023001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29023001-1">*</a> Oracle on Tyre:</p> <p class="sl">Wail, ships of Tarshish,</p> <p class="sl1">for your port is destroyed;</p> <p class="sl">From the land of the Kittim<a id="rfn29023001-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29023001-2">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">the news reaches them.<a id="ren29023001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29023001-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29023002" class="ver">2</span>Silence! you who dwell on the coast,</p> <p class="sl1">you merchants of Sidon,</p> <p class="sl">Whose messengers crossed the sea</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v29023003" class="ver">3</span>over the deep waters,</p> <p class="sl">Whose revenue was the grain of Shihor,<a id="rfn29023003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29023003-1">*</a> the harvest of the Nile,</p> <p class="sl1">you who were the merchant among the nations.<a id="ren29023003-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29023003-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29023004" class="ver">4</span>Be ashamed, Sidon, fortress on the sea,</p> <p class="sl1">for the sea<a id="rfn29023004-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29023004-1">*</a> has spoken,</p> <p class="sl">“I have not been in labor, nor given birth,</p> <p class="sl1">nor raised young men,</p> <p class="sl1">nor reared young women.”</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29023005" class="ver">5</span>When the report reaches Egypt</p> <p class="sl1">they shall be in anguish at the report about Tyre.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29023006" class="ver">6</span>Pass over to Tarshish,<a id="rfn29023006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29023006-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">wail, you who dwell on the coast!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29023007" class="ver">7</span>Is this your exultant city,</p> <p class="sl1">whose origin is from old,</p> <p class="sl">Whose feet have taken her</p> <p class="sl1">to dwell in distant lands?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29023008" class="ver">8</span>Who has planned such a thing</p> <p class="sl1">against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,</p> <p class="sl">Whose merchants are princes,</p> <p class="sl1">whose traders are the earth’s honored men?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29023009" class="ver">9</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts has planned it,</p> <p class="sl1">to disgrace the height of all beauty,</p> <p class="sl1">to degrade all the honored of the earth.<a id="ren29023009-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29023009-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29023010" class="ver">10</span>Cross to your own land,</p> <p class="sl1">ship of Tarshish;</p> <p class="sl1">the harbor is no more.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29023011" class="ver">11</span>His hand he stretches out over the sea,</p> <p class="sl1">he shakes kingdoms;</p> <p class="sl">The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> commanded the destruction</p> <p class="sl1">of Canaan’s strongholds:<a id="rfn29023011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29023011-1">*</a> <a id="ren29023011-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29023011-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29023012" class="ver">12</span>Crushed, you shall exult no more,</p> <p class="sl1">virgin daughter Sidon.</p> <p class="sl">Arise, pass over to the Kittim,</p> <p class="sl1">even there you shall find no rest.<a id="ren29023012-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29023012-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29023013" class="ver">13</span><a id="rfn29023013-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29023013-1">*</a> Look at the land of the Chaldeans,</p> <p class="sl1">the people that has ceased to be.</p> <p class="sl">Assyria founded it for ships,</p> <p class="sl1">raised its towers,</p> <p class="sl">Only to tear down its palaces,</p> <p class="sl1">and turn it into a ruin.<a id="ren29023013-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29023013-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29023014" class="ver">14</span>Lament, ships of Tarshish,</p> <p class="sl1l">for your stronghold is destroyed.</p> </div> <p><span id="v29023015" class="ver">15</span>On that day, Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years,<a id="rfn29023015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29023015-1">*</a> the lifetime of one king. At the end of seventy years, the song about the prostitute will be Tyre’s song:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v29023016" class="ver">16</span>Take a harp, go about the city,</p> <p class="sl1">forgotten prostitute;</p> <p class="sl">Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs,</p> <p class="sl1l">that you may be remembered.</p> </div> <p><span id="v29023017" class="ver">17</span>At the end of the seventy years the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> shall visit Tyre. She shall return to her hire and serve as prostitute<a id="rfn29023017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29023017-1">*</a> with all the world’s kingdoms on the face of the earth.<a id="ren29023017-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29023017-g">g</a> <span id="v29023018" class="ver">18</span>But her merchandise and her hire shall be sacred to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. It shall not be stored up or laid away; instead, her merchandise shall belong to those who dwell before the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, to eat their fill and clothe themselves in choice attire.</p> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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