Isaiah Chapter 23 (NIV)
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A Prophecy About TyreAn oracle concerning Tyre:Wail, O ships of Tarshish!For Tyre is destroyedand left without house or harbor.From the land of Cyprusword has come to them.
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Be silent, you people of the islandand you merchants of Sidon,whom the seafarers have enriched.
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On the great waterscame the grain of the Shihor;the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre,and she became the marketplace of the nations.
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Be ashamed, O Sidon, and you, O 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.”
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When word comes to Egypt,they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.
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Cross over to Tarshish;wail, you people of the island.
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Is this your city of revelry,the old, old city,whose feet have taken herto settle in far-off lands?
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Who planned this against Tyre,the bestower of crowns,whose merchants are princes,whose traders are renowned in the earth?
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The Lord Almighty planned it,to bring low the pride of all gloryand to humble all who are renowned on the earth.
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Till your land as along the Nile,O Daughter of Tarshish,for you no longer have a harbor.
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The Lord has stretched out his hand over the seaand made its kingdoms tremble.He has given an order concerning Phoeniciathat her fortresses be destroyed.
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He said, “No more of your reveling,O Virgin Daughter of Sidon, now crushed!“Up, cross over to Cyprus;even there you will find no rest.”
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Look at the land of the Babylonians,this people that is now of no account!The Assyrians have made ita place for desert creatures;they raised up their siege towers,they stripped its fortresses bareand turned it into a ruin.
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Wail, you ships of Tarshish;your fortress is destroyed!
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At 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:
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“Take up a harp, walk through the city,O prostitute forgotten;play the harp well, sing many a song,so that you will be remembered.”
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At the end of seventy years, the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire as a prostitute and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
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Yet 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.
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