Isaiah 23 NKJV

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width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/isaiah/23.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Proclamation Against Tyre</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-23-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The burden<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span> against Tyre.</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-23-1">Wail, you ships of Tarshish!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-1">For it is laid waste,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-1">So that there is no house, no harbor;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-1">From the land of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>Cyprus it is revealed to them.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-2">You merchants of Sidon,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-2"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>Whom those who cross the sea have filled.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And on great waters the grain of Shihor,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-3">The harvest of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>the River, <i>is</i> her revenue;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-3">And she is a marketplace for the nations.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Be ashamed, O Sidon;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-4">For the sea has spoken,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-4">The strength of the sea, saying,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-4">“I do not labor, nor bring forth children;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-4">Neither do I rear young men,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-4"><i>Nor</i> bring up virgins.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When the report <i>reaches</i> Egypt,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-5">They also will be in agony at the report of Tyre.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Cross over to Tarshish;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-6">Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><i>Is</i> this your joyous <i>city,</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-7">Whose antiquity <i>is</i> from ancient days,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-7">Whose feet carried her far off to dwell?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning <i>city,</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-8">Whose merchants <i>are</i> princes,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-8">Whose traders <i>are</i> the honorable of the earth?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts has purposed it,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-9">To <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>bring to dishonor the pride of all glory,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-9">To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Overflow through your land like <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>the River,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-10">O daughter of Tarshish;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-10"><i>There is</i> no more <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>strength.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He stretched out His hand over the sea,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-11">He shook the kingdoms;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-11">The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has given a commandment against Canaan</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-11">To destroy its strongholds.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And He said, “You will rejoice no more,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-12">O you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-12">Arise, cross over to Cyprus;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-12">There also you will have no rest.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Behold, the land of the Chaldeans,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-13">This people <i>which</i> was not;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-13">Assyria founded it for wild beasts of the desert.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-13">They set up its towers,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-13">They raised up its palaces,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-13"><i>And</i> brought it to ruin.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Wail, you ships of Tarshish!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-14">For your strength is laid waste.</span></p></div> <p class="top-1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as <i>in</i> the song of the harlot:</span></p> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Take a harp, go about the city,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-16">You forgotten harlot;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-16">Make sweet melody, sing many songs,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-23-16">That you may be remembered.”</span></p></div> <p class="top-1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And it shall be, at the end of seventy years, that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire, and commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Her gain and her pay will be set apart for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>; it will not be treasured nor laid up, for her gain will be for those who dwell before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, to eat sufficiently, and for <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>fine clothing.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-18079a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 23:1">Isaiah 23:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>oracle, prophecy</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18079b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 23:1">Isaiah 23:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Kittim,</i> western lands, especially Cyprus</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18080c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 23:2">Isaiah 23:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Vg.; LXX, Tg. <i>Passing over the water;</i> DSS <i>Your messengers passing over the sea</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18081d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 23:3">Isaiah 23:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'>The Nile</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18087e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 23:9">Isaiah 23:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>pollute</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18088f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 23:10">Isaiah 23:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'>The Nile</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18088g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 23:10">Isaiah 23:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>restraint,</i> lit. <i>belt</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18096h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 23:18">Isaiah 23:18</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>choice</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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