Isaiah 23:1-8

1A prophecy against Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For Tyre is destroyed and left without house or harbor. From the land of Cyprus word has come to them.

2Be silent, you people of the island and you merchants of Sidon, whom the seafarers have enriched.

3On the great waters came the grain of the Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre, and she became the marketplace of the nations.

4Be ashamed, Sidon, and you fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”

5When word comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.

6Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you people of the island.

7Is this your city of revelry, the old, old city, whose feet have taken her to settle in far-off lands?

8Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are renowned in the earth?