Isaiah 23:1-18 NIV
A Prophecy Against Tyre
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;
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?
9The LORD ALMIGHTY Planned it,
To Bring Down her pride in all her splendor
and to
humble all who are renowned on the earth.
Daughter
Tarshish,
for you
no longer have a harbor.
11The LORD Has Stretched Out HIS Hand over the
sea
and Made its kingdoms tremble.
HE Has Given an order concerning Phoenicia
that
her fortresses be destroyed.
12HE Said, “No more of your reveling,
Virgin
Daughter Sidon, now crushed!
“Up,
cross over to Cyprus;
even
there you will find no rest.”
this
people that is now of no account!
The
Assyrians have made it
a place
for desert creatures;
they
raised up their siege towers,
they
stripped its fortresses bare
and
turned it into a ruin.
14Wail,
you ships of Tarshish;
your
fortress is destroyed!
15At that
time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s life. But
at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the
prostitute:
16“Take
up a harp, walk through the city,
you
forgotten prostitute;
play
the harp well, sing many a song,
so that
you will be remembered.”
17At the
end of seventy years, The LORD 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.
18Yet her
profit and her earnings will be set apart for The LORD; they will not be stored up
or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live Before The LORD, for abundant food and fine
clothes.
This chapter gives an account both of the desolation and
restoration of Tyre, an ancient city of Phoenicia. Its desolation is described
as so complete, that a house was not left in it, Isaiah 23:1 and
by the fewness and stillness of the inhabitants of it, with which it had been
replenished, it having been a mart of nations, Isaiah 23:2 and
by the shame and pain Sidon, a neighboring city, was put into, on account of
it, Isaiah
23:4 and by the removal of its inhabitants to
other places, Isaiah
23:6 all which is attributed to the Counsel,
Purpose, and Commandment of GOD, to destroy it; WHOSE View was to stain their
pride, and bring them into contempt, Isaiah 23:8 the
means and instruments made use of to this purpose were the Assyrians or
Chaldeans, Isaiah
23:13 and its desolation is further aggravated
by the loss of its trade; hence the merchants of other countries are called to
mourning, Isaiah
23:1 the date and duration of this desolation
were seventy years, Isaiah
23:15 after which it should be restored, and
its merchandise and commerce with all the nations of the earth be revived
again, Isaiah
23:15.
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