Isaiah 23:1-9 ▼

1 A message concerning Tyre. |Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is destroyed and is without house or harbor! From the land of Cyprus it was revealed to them.

2 |Be silent, you inhabitants of the coast, you merchants of Sidon, whose messengers crossed over the sea,

3 and were on mighty waters. Her revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; and she became the marketplace of nations.

4 Be ashamed, Sidon, because the sea has spoken, the fortress of the sea: I have neither been in labor nor given birth, I have neither reared young men nor brought up young women.|

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

6 |You who are crossing over to Tarshish— Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!

7 Is this your exciting city, that was founded long ago, whose feet carried her to settle in far-off lands?

8 Who has planned this against Tyre, that bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the most renowned on earth?

9 The LORD of the Heavenly Armies has planned it— to neutralize all the hubris of grandeur, to discredit all the renowned men of earth.