Isaiah 23
23
Concerning Tyre
1An oracle about Tyre.
Wail, ships of Tarshish,
because your port is destroyed!#23.1 Heb uncertain
When returning from Cyprus, they heard about it.
2Be still, inhabitants of the coast, traders of Sidon,
whose messengers crossed over the sea,#23.2 Correction; MT one crossing over the sea filled you
3over the mighty waters.
The grain of Shihor, the Nile’s harvest, was her income;
she was the marketplace of nations.
4Be ashamed, Sidon, because the sea has spoken;
the fortress of the sea has said,
“I haven’t been in labor; I didn’t give birth;
I never raised young men or brought up young women.”
5When the Egyptians hear,
they will be in anguish at the news about Tyre.
6Cross over to Tarshish;
wail, inhabitants of the coast.
7Is this your triumphant town,
whose origin is from ancient times,
whose feet carried her to settle far away?
8Who planned this concerning Tyre,
the one who gives crowns,
whose merchants were princes,
whose traders were the honored of the earth?
9The LORD of heavenly forces planned it,
to defile the pride of all beauty,
to shame all the honored of the earth.
10Go through your own land, Daughter Tarshish,
for the harbor#23.10 Heb uncertain is gone.
11God’s hand is extended over the sea, shaking nations.
The LORD gave the command to destroy Phoenicia’s fortresses,
12saying, You will no longer celebrate,
violated virgin Daughter Sidon.
Get up and head to Cyprus;
even there you will find no rest.
13Look at the land of the Chaldeans,
the people who are no more.
Assyria destined it for wild animals:
they raised up their siege towers,
stripped its palaces,
and made it a ruin.
14Wail, ships of Tarshish,
for your fortress is destroyed!
15On that day, Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, the lifetime of one king. At the end of seventy years, Tyre will become like the prostitute in the song:
16Take a harp, go around the city, forgotten prostitute.
Play well, sing many songs, so they’ll remember you.
17At the end of seventy years, the LORD will visit Tyre. She will return to her trade and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms on the earth. 18Her profits and wages will be sacred to the LORD. They won’t be stored or saved. Her profits will go to those living before the LORD, for plentiful food and elegant clothes.
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Yeshayah 23
23
1The massa (burden) of Tzor. Howl, ye oniyyot (ships) of Tarshish; for it is destroyed, so that there is no bais, no entering in; from the Eretz Kittim (Land of Cyprus) niglah (it is revealed) to them.
2Be still, ye inhabitants of the ee (isle, island); thou whom the sokher (merchant) of Tzidon, that pass over the yam, have enriched.
3And by mayim rabbim, the zera (grain) of Shikhor,#23:3 Nile the katzir (harvest) of the Shikhor,#23:3 Nile is her tevuah (produce, income); and she is a Sakhar Goyim (market bazaar of nations).
4Be thou ashamed, O Tzidon; for the yam hath spoken, even the ma'oz (fortress) of the yam, saying, I travail not, nor give birth, neither do I rear bochurim, nor bring up betulot.
5As at the report concerning Mitzrayim, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tzor.
6Cross ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the ee (isle, island).
7Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? Her own raglayim shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
8Who hath devised this against Tzor, the crowning city, whose sokharim (merchants) are sarim (princes), whose traders are the nikhbadei Eretz (honored of the Earth).
9 Hashem Tzva'os hath devised it, to demean the ga'on (pride) of every beauty, and to humble all the nikhbadei Eretz.
10Pass through thy land like the Nile, O Bat Tarshish; there is no more restraint.
11He stretched out His Yad over the yam, He shook the mamlakhot (kingdoms); Hashem hath given a commandment against Kena'an, to destroy her ma'a'uzim (fortresses).
12And He said, Thou shalt no more exult, O thou oppressed Betulah, Bat Tzidon; arise, pass over to Kittim (Cyprus); there also shalt thou have no rest.
13Behold, Eretz Kasdim (land of Chaldeans); this people was not, till the Assyrian made it for wild creatures; they raise up the siege towers thereof, they destroyed the palaces thereof; and turned her to ruin.
14Howl, ye oniyyot Tarshish; for your stronghold is destroyed.
15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tzor shall be forgotten shiv'im shanah, according to the yamim of melech echad; after the end of shiv'im shanah shall Tzor sing as a zonah.
16Take a kinnor, go about the Ir, thou zonah that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many shir, that thou mayest be remembered.
17And it shall come to pass at the end of shiv'im shanah, that Hashem will visit Tzor, and she shall return to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the mamlakhot HaAretz upon the face of ha'adamah.
18And her gain and her hire shall be kodesh to Hashem; it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her#23:18 Tzorʼs earnings shall be for them that live before Hashem, to eat sufficiently, and for choice clothing.
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