Isaiah 23:1-9 ▼

1 The Burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish, || For it has been destroyed, || Without house, without entrance, || From the land of Chittim it was revealed to them.

2 Be silent, you inhabitants of the island, || Trader of Sidon, passing the sea, they filled you.

3 And the seed of Sihor [is] in many waters, || Her increase [is] the harvest of the brook, || And she is a market of nations.

4 Be ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea spoke, || The strength of the sea, saying, “I have not been pained, nor have I brought forth, || Nor have I nourished young men, [nor] brought up virgins.”

5 As they are pained [at] the report of Egypt, || So [at] the report of Tyre.

6 Pass over to Tarshish, howl, you inhabitants of the island,

7 Is this your exulting one? Her antiquity [is] from the days of old, || Her own feet carry her far off to sojourn.

8 Who has counseled this against Tyre, || The crowning one, whose traders [are] princes, || Her merchants—the honored of earth?

9 YHWH of Hosts has counseled it, || To defile the excellence of all beauty, || To make light all the honored of earth.