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Chapter 23
| Isai | NETfree | 23:1 | Here is a message 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. | |
| Isai | NETfree | 23:2 | Lament, you residents of the coast, you merchants of Sidon who travel over the sea, whose agents sail over | |
| Isai | NETfree | 23:3 | the deep waters! Grain from the Shihor region, crops grown near the Nile she receives; she is the trade center of the nations. | |
| Isai | NETfree | 23:4 | Be 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." | |
| Isai | NETfree | 23:7 | Is this really your boisterous city whose origins are in the distant past, and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside? | |
| Isai | NETfree | 23:8 | Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth? | |
| Isai | NETfree | 23:9 | The LORD who commands armies planned it - to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth. | |
| Isai | NETfree | 23:10 | Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile; there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre. | |
| Isai | NETfree | 23:11 | The LORD stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook kingdoms; he gave the order to destroy Canaan's fortresses. | |
| Isai | NETfree | 23:12 | He said, "You will no longer celebrate, oppressed virgin daughter Sidon! Get up, travel to Cyprus, but you will find no relief there." | |
| Isai | NETfree | 23:13 | Look 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. | |
| Isai | NETfree | 23:15 | At 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: | |
| Isai | NETfree | 23:16 | "Take the harp, go through the city, forgotten prostitute! Play it well, play lots of songs, so you'll be noticed!" | |
| Isai | NETfree | 23:17 | At 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. | |