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| Isaiah 23:1 | The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them. | The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the house is destroyed, from whence they were wont to come: from the land of Cethim it is revealed to them. |
| Isaiah 23:2 | Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters; | Be silent, you that dwell in the island: the merchants of Sidon passing over the sea, have filled thee. |
| Isaiah 23:3 | Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of the nations. | The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the river is her revenue: and she is become the mart of the nations. |
| Isaiah 23:4 | Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins. | Be thou ashamed, O Sidon: for the sea speaketh, even the strength of the sea, saying: I have not been in labour, nor have I brought forth, nor have I nourished up young men, nor brought up virgins. |
| Isaiah 23:5 | When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre. | When it shall be heard in Egypt, they will be sorry when they shall hear of Tyre: |
| Isaiah 23:6 | Go over to Tarshish; give cries of sorrow, O men of the sea-land. | Pass over the seas, howl, ye inhabitants of the island. |
| Isaiah 23:7 | Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries? | Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her antiquity? her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. |
| Isaiah 23:8 | By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land? | Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, that was formerly crowned, whose merchants were princes, and her traders the nobles of the earth? |
| Isaiah 23:9 | It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth. | The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to pull down the pride of all glory, and bring to disgrace all the glorious ones of the earth. |
| Isaiah 23:10 | Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour. | Pass thy land as a river, O daughter of the sea, thou hast a girdle no more. |
| Isaiah 23:11 | His hand is stretched out over the sea, the kingdoms are shaking: the Lord has given orders about Canaan, to make waste its strong places. | He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled kingdoms: the Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones thereof. |
| Isaiah 23:12 | And he said, There is no more joy for you, O crushed virgin daughter of Zidon: up! go over to Kittim; even there you will have no rest. | And he said: Thou shalt glory no more, O virgin daughter of Sidon, who art oppressed: arise and sail over to Cethim, there also thou shalt have no, rest. |
| Isaiah 23:13 | ... | Behold the land of the Chaldeans, there was not such a people, the Assyrian founded it: they have led away the strong ones thereof into captivity, they have destroyed the houses thereof, they have brought it to ruin. |
| Isaiah 23:14 | Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste. | Howl, O ye ships of the sea, for your strength is laid waste. |
| Isaiah 23:15 | And it will be in that day that Tyre will go out of mind for seventy years, that is, the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre as in the song of the loose woman. | And it shall come to pass in that day that thou, O Tyre, shalt be forgotten, seventy years, according to the days of one king: but after seventy years, there shall be unto Tyre as the song of a harlot. |
| Isaiah 23:16 | Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men's minds. | Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten: sing well, sing many a song, that thou mayst be remembered. |
| Isaiah 23:17 | And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. | And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and will bring her back again to her traffic: and she shall commit fornication again with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. |
| Isaiah 23:18 | And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing. | And her merchandise and her hire shall be sanctified to the Lord: they shall not be kept in store, nor laid up: for her merchandise shall be for them that shall dwell before the Lord, that they may eat unto fulness, and be clothed for a continuance. |
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