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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Babylon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against the Desert by the Sea:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="content">Like whirlwinds sweeping through the southland,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="content">an invader comes from the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="content">from a land of terror.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A dire vision has been shown to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="content">The traitor betrays, the looter takes loot.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="content">Elam, attack! Media, lay siege!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="content">I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">At this my body is racked with pain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="content">pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="content">I am staggered by what I hear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="content">I am bewildered by what I see.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My heart falters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="content">fear makes me tremble;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="content">the twilight I longed for</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="content">has become a horror to me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They set the tables,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">they spread the rugs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">they eat, they drink!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">Get up, you officers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">oil the shields!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This is what the Lord says to me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.21.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Go, post a lookout</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.21.6"><span class="content">and have him report what he sees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When he sees chariots</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">with teams of horses,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">riders on donkeys</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">or riders on camels,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">let him be alert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">fully alert.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And the lookout</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:8 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">A lion</span></span></span><span class="content"> shouted,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.21.8"><span class="content">&#8220;Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.21.8"><span class="content">every night I stay at my post.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Look, here comes a man in a chariot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">with a team of horses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">And he gives back the answer:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">&#8216;Babylon has fallen, has fallen!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">All the images of its gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">lie shattered on the ground!&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="content">I tell you what I have heard</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="content">from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="content">from the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Edom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Dumah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:11 </span><span class="fq">Dumah</span><span class="ft">, a wordplay on </span><span class="fq">Edom</span><span class="ft">, means silence or stillness.</span></span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="content">Someone calls to me from Seir,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Watchman, what is left of the night?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="content">Watchman, what is left of the night?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The watchman replies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Morning is coming, but also the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="content">If you would ask, then ask;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="content">and come back yet again.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Arabia</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Arabia:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.21.13"><span class="content">You caravans of Dedanites,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.21.13"><span class="content">who camp in the thickets of Arabia,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">bring water for the thirsty;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.21.14"><span class="content">you who live in Tema,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.21.14"><span class="content">bring food for the fugitives.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They flee from the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="content">from the drawn sword,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="content">from the bent bow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="content">and from the heat of battle.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">This is what the Lord says to me: &#8220;Within one year, as a servant bound by contract would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.&#8221; The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, has spoken.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="ISA.22">
         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy About Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against the Valley of Vision:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="content">What troubles you now,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="content">that you have all gone up on the roofs,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">you town so full of commotion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">you city of tumult and revelry?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">Your slain were not killed by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">nor did they die in battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All your leaders have fled together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">they have been captured without using the bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">having fled while the enemy was still far away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Therefore I said, &#8220;Turn away from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">let me weep bitterly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">Do not try to console me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">over the destruction of my people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, has a day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">of tumult and trampling and terror</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">in the Valley of Vision,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">a day of battering down walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">and of crying out to the mountains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Elam takes up the quiver,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="content">with her charioteers and horses;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="content">Kir uncovers the shield.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.22.7"><span class="content">and horsemen are posted at the city gates.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="content">and you looked in that day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="content">to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You saw that the walls of the City of David</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">were broken through in many places;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">you stored up water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">in the Lower Pool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You counted the buildings in Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.22.10"><span class="content">and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You built a reservoir between the two walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">for the water of the Old Pool,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">but you did not look to the One who made it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">called you on that day</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">to weep and to wail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But see, there is joy and revelry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">eating of meat and drinking of wine!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Let us eat and drink,&#8221; you say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">&#8220;for tomorrow we die!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: &#8220;Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,&#8221; says the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">This is what the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Go, say to this steward,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="content">to Shebna the palace administrator:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">What are you doing here and who gave you permission</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">to cut out a grave for yourself here,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">hewing your grave on the height</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">and chiseling your resting place in the rock?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Beware, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is about to take firm hold of you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.22.17"><span class="content">and hurl you away, you mighty man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He will roll you up tightly like a ball</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">and throw you into a large country.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">There you will die</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">and there the chariots you were so proud of</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">will become a disgrace to your master&#8217;s house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will depose you from your office,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.22.19"><span class="content">and you will be ousted from your position.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a seat</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">throne</span></span></span><span class="content"> of honor for the house of his father. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots&#8212;all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, &#8220;the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.&#8221; The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Tyre</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Tyre:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">Wail, you ships of Tarshish!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">For Tyre is destroyed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">and left without house or harbor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">From the land of Cyprus</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">word has come to them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Be silent, you people of the island</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.23.2"><span class="content">and you merchants of Sidon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.23.2"><span class="content">whom the seafarers have enriched.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">On the great waters</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="content">came the grain of the Shihor;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="content">the harvest of the Nile</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:2,3 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls </span><span class="fqa">Sidon, / who cross over the sea; / your envoys </span><span class="fv">3 </span><span class="fqa">are on the great waters. / The grain of the Shihor, / the harvest of the Nile,</span></span></span><span class="content"> was the revenue of Tyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="content">and she became the marketplace of the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Be ashamed, Sidon, and you fortress of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="content">for the sea has spoken:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="content">&#8220;I have neither been in labor nor given birth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="content">I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When word comes to Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.23.5"><span class="content">they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Cross over to Tarshish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.23.6"><span class="content">wail, you people of the island.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Is this your city of revelry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="content">the old, old city,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="content">whose feet have taken her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="content">to settle in far-off lands?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Who planned this against Tyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="content">the bestower of crowns,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="content">whose merchants are princes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="content">whose traders are renowned in the earth?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty planned it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.23.9"><span class="content">to bring down her pride in all her splendor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.23.9"><span class="content">and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Till</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:10 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Go through</span></span></span><span class="content"> your land as they do along the Nile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.23.10"><span class="content">Daughter Tarshish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.23.10"><span class="content">for you no longer have a harbor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has stretched out his hand over the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="content">and made its kingdoms tremble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="content">He has given an order concerning Phoenicia</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="content">that her fortresses be destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;No more of your reveling,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="content">Virgin Daughter Sidon, now crushed!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Up, cross over to Cyprus;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="content">even there you will find no rest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Look at the land of the Babylonians,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">this people that is now of no account!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">The Assyrians have made it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">a place for desert creatures;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">they raised up their siege towers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">they stripped its fortresses bare</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">and turned it into a ruin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Wail, you ships of Tarshish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.23.14"><span class="content">your fortress is destroyed!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king&#8217;s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take up a harp, walk through the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="content">you forgotten prostitute;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="content">play the harp well, sing many a song,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="content">so that you will be remembered.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">At the end of seventy years, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for abundant food and fine clothes.</span></span></div>
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