Isaiah 23:1-4

1Here is a message about Tyre: Wail, you large ships, for the port is too devastated to enter! From the land of Cyprus this news is announced to them.

2Lament, you residents of the coast, you merchants of Sidon who travel over the sea, whose agents sail over

3the deep waters! Grain from the Shihor region, crops grown near the Nile she receives; she is the trade center of the nations.

4Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea says this, O fortress of the sea: “I have not gone into labor or given birth; I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”