Berean Standard Bible

Isaiah 23:1-14

1This is the burden against Tyre:

Wail, O ships of Tarshish,1for Tyre is laid waste,without house or harbor.Word has reached themfrom the land of Cyprus.22Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland,you merchants of Sidon,whose traders have crossed the sea.33On the great waterscame the grain of Shihor;the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre;she was the merchant of the nations.4Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea,for the sea has spoken:“I have not been in laboror given birth.I have not raised young menor brought up young women.”5When the report reaches Egypt,they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.

6Cross over to Tarshish;wail, O inhabitants of the coastland!7Is this your jubilant city,whose origin is from antiquity,whose feet have taken herto settle far away?8Who planned this against Tyre,the bestower of crowns,whose traders are princes,whose merchants are renowned on the earth?9The LORD of Hosts planned it,to defile all its glorious beauty,to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.

10Cultivate4 your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish;there is no longer a harbor.11The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea;He has made kingdoms tremble.He has given a commandthat the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.12He said, “You shall rejoice no more,O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon.Get up and cross over to Cyprus—even there you will find no rest.”

13Look at the land of the Chaldeans5—a people now of no account.The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures;they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces.They brought it to ruin.

14Wail, O ships of Tarshish,for your harbor has been destroyed!

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1. Isaiah 23:1 Or Wail, O fleet of trading ships; also in verse 14 ↩
2. Isaiah 23:1 Hebrew Kittim; also in verse 12 ↩
3. Isaiah 23:2 DSS and LXX; MT whom the seafarers have enriched ↩
4. Isaiah 23:10 DSS and some LXX manuscripts; MT Overflow ↩
5. Isaiah 23:13 That is, the Babylonians ↩

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