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<p class="indent1"> the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; <p class="indent2"> she was the merchant of the nations. <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, <p class="indent2"> for the sea has spoken: <p class="indent1">“I have not been in labor <p class="indent2"> or given birth. <p class="indent1"> I have not raised young men <p class="indent2"> or brought up young women.” <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When the report reaches Egypt, <p class="indent2"> they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Cross over to Tarshish; <p class="indent2"> wail, O inhabitants of the coastland! <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Is this your jubilant city, <p class="indent2"> whose origin is from antiquity, <p class="indent1"> whose feet have taken her <p class="indent2"> to settle far away? <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Who planned this against Tyre, <p class="indent2"> the bestower of crowns, <p class="indent1"> whose traders are princes, <p class="indent2"> whose merchants are renowned on the earth? <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The LORD of Hosts planned it, <p class="indent2"> to defile all its glorious beauty, <p class="indent2"> to disgrace all the renowned of the earth. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Cultivate<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; <p class="indent2"> there is no longer a harbor. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; <p class="indent2"> He has made kingdoms tremble. <p class="indent1"> He has given a command <p class="indent2"> that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He said, “You shall rejoice no more, <p class="indent2"> O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon. <p class="indent1"> Get up and cross over to Cyprus—<p class="indent2"> even there you will find no rest.” <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Look at the land of the Chaldeans<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span>—<p class="indent2"> a people now of no account. <p class="indent1"> The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; <p class="indent2"> they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. <p class="indent2"> They brought it to ruin. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Wail, O ships of Tarshish, <p class="indent2"> for your harbor has been destroyed! <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Take up your harp, <p class="indent2"> stroll through the city, <p class="indent2"> O forgotten harlot. <p class="indent1"> Make sweet melody, <p class="indent2"> sing many a song, <p class="indent2"> so you will be remembered.” <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>Wail, O fleet of trading ships</i>; also in verse 14<br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Hebrew <i>Kittim</i>; also in verse 12<br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> DSS and LXX; MT <i>whom the seafarers have enriched</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> DSS and some LXX manuscripts; MT <i>Overflow</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> That is, the Babylonians<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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