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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" /><title>Isaiah 23 ESV</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="../topmenuchap/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">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/23.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">An Oracle Concerning Tyre and Sidon</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The oracle concerning Tyre.</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">Wail, O ships of Tarshish,</span><br /><span class="indent">for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">From the land of Cyprus<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Kittim; also verse 12">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">it is revealed to them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Be still, O inhabitants of the coast;</span><br /><span class="indent">the merchants of Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And on many waters</span><br /><span class="ln-group">your revenue was the grain of Shihor,</span><br /><span class="indent">the harvest of the Nile;</span><br /><span class="indent">you were the merchant of the nations.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken,</span><br /><span class="indent">the stronghold of the sea, saying:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“I have neither labored nor given birth,</span><br /><span class="indent">I have neither reared young men</span><br /><span class="indent">nor brought up young women.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When the report comes to Egypt,</span><br /><span class="indent">they will be in anguish<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew they will have labor pains">b</a></sup></span> over the report about Tyre.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Cross over to Tarshish;</span><br /><span class="indent">wail, O inhabitants of the coast!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Is this your exultant city</span><br /><span class="indent">whose origin is from days of old,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">whose feet carried her</span><br /><span class="indent">to settle far away?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Who has purposed this</span><br /><span class="indent">against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">whose merchants were princes,</span><br /><span class="indent">whose traders were the honored of the earth?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts has purposed it,</span><br /><span class="indent">to defile the pompous pride of all glory,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew words for glory and hosts sound alike">c</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">to dishonor all the honored of the earth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Cross over your land like the Nile,</span><br /><span class="indent">O daughter of Tarshish;</span><br /><span class="indent">there is no restraint anymore.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He has stretched out his hand over the sea;</span><br /><span class="indent">he has shaken the kingdoms;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has given command concerning Canaan</span><br /><span class="indent">to destroy its strongholds.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And he said:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“You will no more exult,</span><br /><span class="indent">O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">arise, cross over to Cyprus,</span><br /><span class="indent">even there you will have no rest.”</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or that has become nothing">d</a></sup></span> Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Wail, O ships of Tarshish,</span><br /><span class="indent">for your stronghold is laid waste.</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or lifetime">e</a></sup></span> of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Take a harp;</span><br /><span class="indent">go about the city,</span><br /><span class="indent">O forgotten prostitute!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Make sweet melody;</span><br /><span class="indent">sing many songs,</span><br /><span class="indent">that you may be remembered.”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>At the end of seventy years, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Her merchandise and her wages will be holy to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. It will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Hebrew <i>Kittim</i>; also verse 12<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">they will</span> have labor pains</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> The Hebrew words for <i class="catch-word">glory</i> and <i class="catch-word">hosts</i> sound alike<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">that</span> has become nothing</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i>lifetime</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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