Isaiah 23:1-9 ▼

1 A pronouncement concerning Tyre: Wail, ships of Tarshish, for your haven has been destroyed. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

2 Mourn, inhabitants of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon; your agents have crossed the sea

3 over deep water. Tyre’s revenue was the grain from Shihor — the harvest of the Nile. She was the merchant among the nations.

4 Be ashamed, Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”

5 When the news reaches Egypt, they will be in anguish over the news about Tyre.

6 Cross over to Tarshish; wail, inhabitants of the coastland!

7 Is this your jubilant city, whose origin was in ancient times, whose feet have taken her to reside far away?

8 Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are the honored ones of the earth?

9 The LORD of Armies planned it, to desecrate all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the honored ones of the earth.