# Isaiah 23 đź“–
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## đź“ś Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### The Lord Will Judge Tyre
[[#Verse 01.]] This is an oracle 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.
[[#Verse 02.]] Lament, you residents of the coast,
you merchants of Sidon who travel over the sea,
whose agents sail overÂ
[[#Verse 03.]]Â the deep waters.
Grain from the Shihor region,
crops grown near the Nile she receives;
she is the trade center of the nations.
[[#Verse 04.]]Â Be 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.”
[[#Verse 05.]]Â When the news reaches Egypt,
they will be shaken by what has happened to Tyre.
[[#Verse 06]]Â Travel to Tarshish!
Wail, you residents of the coast!
[[#Verse 07.]]Â Is this really your boisterous city
whose origins are in the distant past,
and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?
[[#Verse 08.]]Â Who planned this for royal Tyre,
whose merchants are princes,
whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?
[[#Verse 09.]] The Lord of Heaven’s Armies planned it—
to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty,
to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.
[[#Verse 10.]]Â Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile;
there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.
[[#Verse 11.]] The Lord stretched out his hand over the sea,
he shook kingdoms;
he gave the order
to destroy Canaan’s fortresses.
[[#Verse 12.]]Â He said,
“You will no longer celebrate,
oppressed virgin daughter Sidon!
Get up, travel to Cyprus,
but you will find no relief there.”
[[#Verse 13.]]Â Look at the land of the Chaldeans,
tese people who have lost their identity!
The Assyrians have made it a home for wild animals.
They erected their siege towers,
demolished its fortresses,
and turned it into a heap of ruins.
[[#Verse 14.]]Â Wail, you large ships,
for your fortress is destroyed!
[[#Verse 15.]] At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the typical life span of a king. At the end of seventy years Tyre will try to attract attention again, like the prostitute in the popular song:
[[#Verse 16.]] “Take the harp,
go through the city,
forgotten prostitute!
Play it well,
play lots of songs,
so you’ll be noticed.”
[[#Verse 17.]] At the end of seventy years the Lord will revive Tyre. She will start making money again by selling her services to all the earth’s kingdoms.Â
[[#Verse 18.]] Her profits and earnings will be set apart for the Lord. They will not be stored up or accumulated, for her profits will be given to those who live in the Lord’s presence and will be used to purchase large quantities of food and beautiful clothes.
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