AB - Isaiah - 23

23:1  THE WORD CONCERNING TYRE. Howl, you ships of Carthage; for she has perished, and men no longer arrive from the land of the Citians; she is led captive.

23:2  To whom have the inhabitants of the island become like, the merchants of Phoenice, passing over the sea

23:3  in great waters, a generation of merchants? As when the harvest is gathered in, so are these traders with the nations.

23:4  Be ashamed, O Sidon; the sea has said, yea, the strength of the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins.

23:5  Moreover when it shall be heard in Egypt, sorrow shall seize them for Tyre.

23:6  Depart to Carthage. Howl, you that dwell in this island.

23:7  Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up?

23:8  Who has devised this counsel against Tyre. Is she inferior? Or has she no strength? Her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.

23:9  The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.

23:10  Till your land; for ships no more come out of Carthage.

23:11  And your hand prevails no more by sea, which troubled kings; the Lord of hosts has given a command concerning Canaan, to destroy the strength thereof.

23:12  And men shall say, You shall no longer at all continue to insult and injure the daughter of Sidon; and if you depart to the Citians, neither there shall you have rest.

23:13  And if you depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.

23:14  Howl, you ships of Carthage; for your stronghold is destroyed.

23:15  And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man; and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.

23:16  Take a harp, go about, O city, you harlot that have been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many songs, that you may be remembered.

23:17  And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, that God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

23:18  And her trade and her gain shall be holiness to the Lord; it shall not be gathered for them, but for those that dwell before the Lord, even all her trade, to eat and drink and be filled, and for a covenant and a memorial before the Lord.