Isaiah 23 — ENGLXXUP

23 Verse 1 The word concerning Tyre. ^{Verse 2} To whom are the dwellers in the island become like, the merchants of Phoenicia, passing over the sea ^{Verse 3} in great waters, a generation of merchants? as when the harvest is gathered in, so are these traders with the nations. ^{Verse 4} Be ashamed, O Sidon: the sea has said, yea, the strength of the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins. ^{Verse 5} Moreover when it shall be heard in Egypt, sorrow shall seize them for Tyre. ^{Verse 6} Depart ye to Carthage; howl, ye that dwell in this island. ^{Verse 7} Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up? ^{Verse 8} Who has devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth. ^{Verse 9} The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth. ^{Verse 10} Till thy land; for ships no more come out of Carthage. ^{Verse 11} And thy hand prevails no more by sea, which troubled kings: the Lord of hosts has given a command concerning Canaan, to destroy the strength thereof. ^{Verse 12} And men shall say, Ye shall no longer at all continue to insult and injure the daughter of Sidon: and if thou depart to the Kittim, neither there shalt thou have rest. ^{Verse 13} And if thou depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen. ^{Verse 14} Howl, ye ships of Carthage: for your stronghold is destroyed. ^{Verse 15} And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot. ^{Verse 16} Take a harp, go about, O city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. ^{Verse 17} And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, that God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. ^{Verse 18} And her trade and her gain shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be gathered for them, but for those that dwell before the Lord, even all her trade, to eat and drink and be filled, and for a covenant and a memorial before the Lord.