Isaiah 23 (NET)

Isaiah 23:1¹This is an oracle about Tyre: Wail, you large ships, for the port is too devastated to enter! From the land of Cyprus this news is announced to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:2²Lament, you residents of the coast, you merchants of Sidon who travel over the sea, whose agents sail overCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:3³the deep waters. Grain from the Shihor region, crops grown near the Nile she receives; she is the trade center of the nations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:4⁴Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea says this, O fortress of the sea: “I have not gone into labor or given birth; I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:5⁵When the news reaches Egypt, they will be shaken by what has happened to Tyre.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:6⁶Travel to Tarshish! Wail, you residents of the coast!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:7⁷Is this really your boisterous city whose origins are in the distant past, and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:8⁸Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:9⁹The Lord of Heaven’s Armies planned it— to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:10¹⁰Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile; there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:11¹¹The Lord stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook kingdoms; he gave the order to destroy Canaan’s fortresses.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:12¹²He said, “You will no longer celebrate, oppressed virgin daughter Sidon! Get up, travel to Cyprus, but you will find no relief there.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:13¹³Look at the land of the Chaldeans, these people who have lost their identity! The Assyrians have made it a home for wild animals. They erected their siege towers, demolished its fortresses, and turned it into a heap of ruins.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:14¹⁴Wail, you large ships, for your fortress is destroyed!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:15¹⁵At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the typical life span of a king. At the end of seventy years Tyre will try to attract attention again, like the prostitute in the popular song:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:16¹⁶“Take the harp, go through the city, forgotten prostitute! Play it well, play lots of songs, so you’ll be noticed.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:17¹⁷At the end of seventy years the Lord will revive Tyre. She will start making money again by selling her services to all the earth’s kingdoms.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 23:18¹⁸Her profits and earnings will be set apart for the Lord. They will not be stored up or accumulated, for her profits will be given to those who live in the Lord ’s presence and will be used to purchase large quantities of food and beautiful clothes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s