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Isaiah 23 JPS Tanakh 1917
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for the sea hath spoken,</div><div class="po2">The stronghold of the sea, saying:</div><div class="po2">‘I have not travailed, nor brought forth,</div><div class="po2">Neither have I reared young men, nor brought up virgins.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When the report cometh to Egypt,</div><div class="po2">They shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the coast-land.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Is this your joyous city,</div><div class="po2">Whose feet in antiquity,</div><div class="po2">In ancient days,</div><div class="po2">Carried her afar off to sojourn?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Who hath devised this against Tyre, the crowning city,</div><div class="po2">Whose merchants are princes,</div><div class="po2">Whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The LORD of hosts hath devised it,</div><div class="po2">To pollute the pride of all glory,</div><div class="po2">To bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Overflow thy land as the Nile,</div><div class="po2">O daughter of Tarshish! there is no girdle any more.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He hath stretched out His hand over the sea,</div><div class="po2">He hath shaken the kingdoms;</div><div class="po2">The LORD hath given commandment concerning Canaan,</div><div class="po2">To destroy the strongholds thereof;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And He said: ‘Thou shalt no more rejoice.’</div><div class="po2">O thou oppressed virgin daughter of Zidon,</div><div class="po2">Arise, pass over to Kittim;</div><div class="po2">Even there shalt thou have no rest.</div> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people that was not, when Asshur founded it for shipmen—they set up their towers, they overthrew the palaces thereof; it is made a ruin. <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Howl, ye ships of Tarshish,</div><div class="po2">For your stronghold is laid waste.</div> <p class="section"></p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king; after the end of seventy years it shall fare with Tyre as in the song of the harlot: <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Take a harp,</div><div class="po2">Go about the city,</div><div class="po2">Thou harlot long forgotten;</div><div class="po2">Make sweet melody,</div><div class="po2">Sing many songs,</div><div class="po2">That thou mayest be remembered.</div> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will remember Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall have commerce with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And her gain and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD; it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her gain shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat their fill, and for stately clothing.</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/isaiah/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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