Isa 23 | NASB2020 | STEP | The pronouncement concerning Tyre : Wail , you ships of Tarshish , For Tyre is destroyed , without house or harbor ; It is reported to them from the land of Cyprus .

Isaiah 23

The Fall of Tyre

1 The pronouncement concerning ^aTyre:

Wail, you ^bships of ^cTarshish,
For Tyre is destroyed, without house or ^{▼▼Lit entering
,} ^eharbor;
It is reported to them from the land of ^{▼▼Heb Kittim
,} ^gCyprus.
2 ^hBe silent, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You merchants of Sidon;
^{▼▼As in DSS; MT Who passed over the sea, they replenished you}Your messengers crossed the sea
3 And were on many waters.
^jThe grain of the ^{▼▼Heb Shihor
,} ^lNile, the harvest of the River was her revenue;
And she was the ^mmarket of nations.
4 Be ashamed, ⁿSidon,
For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,
“I have neither been in labor nor given birth,
I have neither brought up young men nor raised virgins.”
5 When the report reaches Egypt,
They will be in ^oanguish over the report of Tyre.
6 Pass over to ^pTarshish;
Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland.
7 Is this your ^qjubilant city,
Whose origin is from antiquity,
Whose feet used to bring her to ^{▼▼Lit sojourn afar off}colonize distant places?

8 Who has planned this against Tyre, ^sthe bestower of crowns,
Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?
9 ^tThe Lord of armies has planned it, to ^udefile the pride of all beauty,
To despise all the ^vhonored of the earth.
10 ^{▼▼Lit Pass over}Overflow your land like the Nile, you daughter of Tarshish,
There is no more ^{▼▼Perhaps girdle or shipyard}restraint.
11 He has ^ystretched His hand out ^zover the sea,
He has ^aamade the kingdoms tremble;
The Lord has given a command concerning Canaan to ^abdemolish its strongholds.

12 He has said, “ ^acYou shall not be jubilant anymore, you crushed virgin daughter of Sidon.
Arise, pass over to ^{▼▼Heb Kittim
,} ^aeCyprus; even there you will find no rest.”
13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans --this is the people that did not exist; ^afAssyria allocated it for ^agdesert creatures--they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, ^ahthey made it a ruin.

14 Wail, you ^aiships of Tarshish,
For your stronghold is destroyed.
15 Now on that day Tyre will be forgotten for ^ajseventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

16 Take your harp, wander around the city,
You forgotten prostitute;
Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs,
That you may be remembered.
17 It will come about at ^akthe end of seventy years that the Lord will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her prostitute’s wages and ^alcommit prostitution with all the kingdoms ^{▼▼Lit of the earth on the face of the land}on the face of the earth. 18 Her ^anprofit and her prostitute’s wages will be ^aosacred to the Lord; it will not be stored up or hoarded, but her profit will become sufficient food and magnificent attire for those who dwell in the presence of the Lord.