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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 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">An Oracle concerning Tyre</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>The oracle concerning Tyre.</span></p><div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text">Wail, O ships of Tarshish,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for your fortress is destroyed.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-21965a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">When they came in from Cyprus</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they learned of it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Be still, O inhabitants of the coast,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O merchants of Sidon,</span></span><br /><span class="text">your messengers crossed over the sea<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-21966b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span>and were on the mighty waters;</span></span><br /><span class="text">your revenue was the grain of Shihor,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the harvest of the Nile;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you were the merchant of the nations.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the fortress of the sea, saying:</span></span><br /><span class="text">“I have neither labored nor given birth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I have neither reared young men</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">nor brought up young women.”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>When the report comes to Egypt,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they will be in anguish over the report about Tyre.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Cross over to Tarshish—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">wail, O inhabitants of the coast!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Is this your exultant city</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">whose origin is from days of old,</span></span><br /><span class="text">whose feet carried her</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to settle far away?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Who has planned this</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,</span></span><br /><span class="text">whose merchants were princes,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">whose traders were the honored of the earth?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts has planned it—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to defile the pride of all glory,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to shame all the honored of the earth.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Cross over to your own land,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O ships of<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-21974c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> Tarshish;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">this is a harbor<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-21974d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> no more.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>He has stretched out his hand over the sea,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he has shaken the kingdoms;</span></span><br /><span class="text">the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has given command concerning Canaan</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to destroy its fortresses.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>He said:</span><br /><span class="text">You will exult no longer,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O oppressed virgin daughter Sidon;</span></span><br /><span class="text">rise, cross over to Cyprus—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">even there you will have no rest.</span></span></p></div> <p class="top-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Look at the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people; it was not Assyria. They destined Tyre for wild animals. They erected their siege towers, they tore down her palaces, they made her a ruin.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-21977e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span></p> <div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Wail, O ships of Tarshish,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for your fortress is destroyed.</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>From that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the lifetime of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song about the prostitute:</span></p> <div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Take a harp,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">go about the city,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you forgotten prostitute!</span></span><br /><span class="text">Make sweet melody,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">sing many songs,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">that you may be remembered.</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>At the end of seventy years, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will visit Tyre, and she will return to her trade, and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Her merchandise and her wages will be dedicated to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; her profits<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-21982f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who live in the presence of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 23:1">Isaiah 23:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn Compare verse 14: Heb <i>for it is destroyed, without houses</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 23:2">Isaiah 23:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Q Ms: MT <i>crossing over the sea, they replenished you</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 23:10">Isaiah 23:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn Compare Gk: Heb <i>like the Nile, daughter</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 23:10">Isaiah 23:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>restraint</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 23:13">Isaiah 23:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 23:18">Isaiah 23:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>it</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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