Isaiah 23:1-9 ▼

1 Oracle on Tyre: Wail, ships of Tarshish, for your port is destroyed; From the land of the Kittim the news reaches them.

2 Silence! you who dwell on the coast, you merchants of Sidon, Whose messengers crossed the sea

3 over the deep waters, Whose revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, you who were the merchant among the nations.

4 Be ashamed, Sidon, fortress on the sea, for the sea has spoken, “I have not been in labor, nor given birth, nor raised young men, nor reared young women.”

5 When the report reaches Egypt they shall be in anguish at the report about Tyre.

6 Pass over to Tarshish, wail, you who dwell on the coast!

7 Is this your exultant city, whose origin is from old, Whose feet have taken her to dwell in distant lands?

8 Who has planned such a thing against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, Whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the earth’s honored men?

9 The LORD of hosts has planned it, to disgrace the height of all beauty, to degrade all the honored of the earth.