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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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" 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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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">The City of Tyre Will Be Punished</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_23_1"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.1" class="v23_23_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.23.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> This is a message from distant islands about the city of Tyre:<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.23.1!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_1">Cry, you seagoing ships!<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.23.1!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_1">Tyre and its houses</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_1">lie in ruins.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.23.1!f.4" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_2"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.2" class="v23_23_2">2</span>Mourn in silence,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_2">you shop owners of Sidon,<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.23.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_2">you people on the coast.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_2">Your sailors crossed oceans,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_2">making your city rich.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_3"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.3" class="v23_23_3">3</span>Your merchants sailed the seas,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_3">making you wealthy by trading</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_3">with nation after nation.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_3">They brought back grain</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_3">that grew along the Nile.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.23.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_4"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.4" class="v23_23_4">4</span>Sidon, you are a mighty fortress</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_4">built along the sea.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_4">But you will be disgraced</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_4">like a married woman</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_4">who never had children.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.23.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_5"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.5" class="v23_23_5">5</span>When Egypt hears about Tyre,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_5">it will tremble.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_6"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.6" class="v23_23_6">6</span>All of you along the coast</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_6">had better cry and sail</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_6">far across the ocean.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.23.6!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_7"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.7" class="v23_23_7">7</span>Can this be the happy city</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_7">that has stood for centuries?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_7">Its people have spread</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_7">to distant lands;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_8"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.8" class="v23_23_8">8</span>its merchants were kings</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_8">honored all over the world.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_8">Who planned to destroy Tyre?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_9"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.9" class="v23_23_9">9</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> All-Powerful planned it</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_9">to bring shame and disgrace</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_9">to those who are honored</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_9">by everyone on earth.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_10"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.10" class="v23_23_10">10</span>People of Tyre,<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.23.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_10">your harbor is destroyed!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_10">You will have to become farmers</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_10">just like the Egyptians.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.23.10!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><h3 class="s1">Tyre Will Be Forgotten</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_11"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.11" class="v23_23_11">11</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s hand has reached</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_11">across the sea,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_11">upsetting the nations.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_11">He has given a command</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_11">to destroy fortresses</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_11">in the land of Canaan.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_12"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.12" class="v23_23_12">12</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has said</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_12">to the people of Sidon,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_12">“Your celebrating is over—</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_12">you are crushed.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_12">Even if you escape to Cyprus,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_12">you won't find peace.”</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_23_13"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.13" class="v23_23_13">13</span>Look what the Assyrians have done to Babylonia! They have attacked, destroying every palace in the land. Now wild animals live among the ruins.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.23.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v23_23_14"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.14" class="v23_23_14">14</span>Not a fortress will be left standing, so tell all the seagoing ships<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.23.14!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> to mourn.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_23_15"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.15" class="v23_23_15">15</span>The city of Tyre will be forgotten for 70 years, which is the lifetime of a king. Then Tyre will be like that evil woman in the song:</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_16"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.16" class="v23_23_16">16</span>You're gone and forgotten,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_16">you evil woman!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_16">So strut through the town,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_16">singing and playing</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_23_16">your favorite tune</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_23_16">to be remembered again.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_23_17"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.17" class="v23_23_17">17</span>At the end of those 70 years, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will let Tyre get back into business. The city will be like a woman who sells her body to everyone of every nation on earth, </span><span class="v23_23_18"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.23.18" class="v23_23_18">18</span>but none of what is earned will be kept in the city. That money will belong to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, and it will be used to buy more than enough food and good clothes for those who worship the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">23.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Tyre: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A fortress city built on an island in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of what is now Lebanon.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">23.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">seagoing ships: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 2.16.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">23.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Tyre … ruins: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">23.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Sidon: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A coastal city just north of Tyre.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">23.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">along the Nile: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile,” but Shihor is probably a name for a region near the lower part of the Nile.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">23.4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">children: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">23.6 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">far across the ocean: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “to Tarshish,” probably meaning a long distance.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">23.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">People of Tyre: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “the people of Tarshish,” which stands for the colonies of Tyre.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">23.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Egyptians: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 10.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">23.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">ruins: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 13.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">23.14 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">seagoing ships: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 2.16.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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