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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 Smith's Literal Translation</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="../">SLT</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/23-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Burden against Tyre<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../ezekiel/26.htm">Ezekiel 26:1–21</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The burden of Tyre. Wail, ye ships of Tarshish, for it was laid waste from a house from going in: from the land of Chittim it was uncovered to them.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Be ye silent, O inhabitants of the isle; the merchants of Zidon passing over the sea filled thee.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>On many waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river her produce; and she shall be the emporium of nations.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea said, the strength of the sea, saying, I was not pained, I brought not forth, and I caused not youths to grow, and I raised not up virgins.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>As the hearing to Egypt; they shall be pained as the hearing of Tyre.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Pass ye through Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the isle.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>This to you the exulting from the days of old, her beginning; her feet shall fail her sojourning from far off.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Who will counsel this against Tyre, encircled with a crown, whom her merchants, chiefs; her merchants the honored of the earth.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Jehovah of armies purposed it to profane the pride of all glory, to make light all the honored of the earth.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Pass through thy land as a river, thou daughter of Tarshish: no more girding.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He stretched forth his hand over the sea, he disquieted kingdoms: Jehovah commanded to Canaan to destroy her fortress.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And he will say, Thou shalt no more add to exalt, thou violated virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; also there it shall not be rest to thee.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Behold the land of the Chaldees; this people was not; Assur founded it for the inhabitants of the desert: they set up its watch-towers, they raised up its fortresses, he set it for ruins.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Wail, ye ships of Tarshish: your strength was laid waste.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And it was in that day, and Tyre was forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: from the end of seventy years it shall be to Tyre as the song of a harlot.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Take a harp, go about the city, O harlot having been forgotten; be cheerful, playing on the instrument; increase the song so that thou shalt be remembered.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And it was from the end of seventy years, Jehovah will review Tyre, and she turned back to her gift, and she committed fornication with all the kingdoms of the land upon the face of the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And her traffic and her gift holy to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured up, and it shall not be laid up; for to those dwelling before Jehovah her traffic shall be for eating to be satisfied, and for a splendid covering.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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