Isaiah 23:1-9 ▼

1 The Burden of Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for it is laid waste—without house, without harbor! From the land of Kittim it has been revealed to them.

2 Be still, O dwellers of the coastland, merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea.

3 And on great waters is the seed of Sihor; the harvest of the River is her revenue, and she is a marketplace of nations.

4 Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the strength of the sea, saying: “I have not been pained and I have not brought forth children, and I have not nourished young men or brought up young women.”

5 When the report comes to Egypt they will writhe in agony at the report of Tyre.

6 Pass over to Tarshish; Wail, O dwellers of the coastland.

7 Is this your? jubilant one, whose origin is from days of old? Her own feet carried her to settle far away.

8 Who has taken counsel this against Tyre, the crowning one, whose merchants are princes; her traders are the honorable ones of the earth?

9 Yhwh of hosts has purposed it—to dishonor the pride of all glory, to shame all the honorable ones of the earth.