Isaiah 23 - New International Version (NIV)

A Prophecy Against Tyre

23 A prophecy against Tyre:(A)

Wail,(B) you ships(C) of Tarshish!(D)
For Tyre is destroyed(E)
and left without house or harbor.
From the land of Cyprus
word has come to them.

2 Be silent,(F) you people of the island
and you merchants(G) of Sidon,(H)
whom the seafarers have enriched.
3 On the great waters
came the grain of the Shihor;(I)
the harvest of the Nile[a](J) was the revenue of Tyre,(K)
and she became the marketplace of the nations.

4 Be ashamed, Sidon,(L) and you fortress of the sea,
for the sea has spoken:
“I have neither been in labor nor given birth;(M)
I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”
5 When word comes to Egypt,
they will be in anguish(N) at the report from Tyre.(O)

6 Cross over to Tarshish;(P)
wail, you people of the island.
7 Is this your city of revelry,(Q)
the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
to settle in far-off lands?
8 Who planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants(R) are princes,
whose traders(S) are renowned in the earth?
9 The Lord Almighty planned(T) it,
to bring down(U) her pride in all her splendor
and to humble(V) all who are renowned(W) on the earth.

10 Till[b] your land as they do along the Nile,
Daughter Tarshish,
for you no longer have a harbor.
11 The Lord has stretched out his hand(X) over the sea
and made its kingdoms tremble.(Y)
He has given an order concerning Phoenicia
that her fortresses be destroyed.(Z)
12 He said, “No more of your reveling,(AA)
Virgin Daughter(AB) Sidon, now crushed!

“Up, cross over to Cyprus;(AC)
even there you will find no rest.”
13 Look at the land of the Babylonians,[c](AD)
this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians(AE) have made it
a place for desert creatures;(AF)
they raised up their siege towers,(AG)
they stripped its fortresses bare
and turned it into a ruin.(AH)

14 Wail, you ships(AI) of Tarshish;(AJ)
your fortress is destroyed!(AK)

15 At that time Tyre(AL) will be forgotten for seventy years,(AM) the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

16 “Take up a harp, walk through the city,
you forgotten prostitute;(AN)
play the harp well, sing many a song,
so that you will be remembered.”

17 At the end of seventy years,(AO) the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution(AP) and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.(AQ) 18 Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord;(AR) they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord,(AS) for abundant food and fine clothes.(AT)

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:3 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls Sidon, / who cross over the sea; / your envoys 3 are on the great waters. / The grain of the Shihor, / the harvest of the Nile,
  2. Isaiah 23:10 Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text Go through
  3. Isaiah 23:13 Or Chaldeans

Cross references

  1. Isaiah 23:1 : Jos 19:29; 1Ki 5:1; Jer 47:4; Joel 3:4-8; Am 1:9-10
  2. Isaiah 23:1 : S Isa 13:6
  3. Isaiah 23:1 : S 1Ki 10:22
  4. Isaiah 23:1 : S Ge 10:4; Isa 2:16 fn
  5. Isaiah 23:1 : S Ge 1:2; Eze 26:4
  6. Isaiah 23:2 : S Job 2:13
  7. Isaiah 23:2 : Eze 27:5-24
  8. Isaiah 23:2 : Jdg 1:31
  9. Isaiah 23:3 : S Ge 41:5
  10. Isaiah 23:3 : S Isa 19:7
  11. Isaiah 23:3 : S Ps 83:7
  12. Isaiah 23:4 : S Ge 10:15, 19
  13. Isaiah 23:4 : Isa 54:1
  14. Isaiah 23:5 : Eze 30:9
  15. Isaiah 23:5 : Eze 26:17-18
  16. Isaiah 23:6 : S Ge 10:4
  17. Isaiah 23:7 : ver 12; S Isa 5:14; S 21:5; 32:13; Eze 26:13
  18. Isaiah 23:8 : Na 3:16
  19. Isaiah 23:8 : Eze 28:5; Rev 18:23
  20. Isaiah 23:9 : S Isa 14:24
  21. Isaiah 23:9 : S Job 40:11
  22. Isaiah 23:9 : S Isa 13:11
  23. Isaiah 23:9 : Isa 5:13; 9:15; Eze 27:3
  24. Isaiah 23:11 : S Ex 14:21
  25. Isaiah 23:11 : S Ps 46:6
  26. Isaiah 23:11 : ver 14; Isa 25:2; Eze 26:4; Zec 9:3-4
  27. Isaiah 23:12 : S ver 7; Rev 18:22
  28. Isaiah 23:12 : Isa 37:22; 47:1; Jer 14:17; 46:11; La 2:13; Zep 3:14; Zec 2:10
  29. Isaiah 23:12 : S Ge 10:4
  30. Isaiah 23:13 : Isa 43:14; Jer 51:12
  31. Isaiah 23:13 : Isa 10:5
  32. Isaiah 23:13 : S Ps 74:14; Isa 18:6
  33. Isaiah 23:13 : S 2Ki 25:1
  34. Isaiah 23:13 : Isa 10:7
  35. Isaiah 23:14 : S 1Ki 10:22
  36. Isaiah 23:14 : S Ge 10:4; Isa 2:16 fn
  37. Isaiah 23:14 : S ver 11
  38. Isaiah 23:15 : Jer 25:22
  39. Isaiah 23:15 : S Ps 90:10
  40. Isaiah 23:16 : Pr 7:10
  41. Isaiah 23:17 : S Ps 90:10
  42. Isaiah 23:17 : Dt 23:17-18; Eze 16:26; Na 3:4; Rev 17:1; 18:3, 9
  43. Isaiah 23:17 : Jer 25:26
  44. Isaiah 23:18 : Ex 28:36; S 39:30; Jos 6:17-19; Ps 72:10
  45. Isaiah 23:18 : Isa 18:7; 60:5-9; 61:6; Mic 4:13
  46. Isaiah 23:18 : Am 1:9-10; Zec 14:1, 14

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