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Tyre's Fall and Future Restoration

Isaiah 23:1-18

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Chapter 23
1 Burden of Tyre. Howl, ships of Tarshish, for it is plundered from the house of entering; from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. 2 Be silent, inhabitants of the island, merchandise of Sidon, who crossed the full sea. 3 And in many waters, the seed of the Nile’s dawn harvest, her produce—and she was the merchandise of nations. 4 Be ashamed, Sidon, for the Sea has spoken, the stronghold of the Sea: "I have not gone into labor or given birth, nor have I raised up young men. I have exalted virgins." 5 As when they hear of Egypt, they will writhe, as when Tyre hears. 6 Pass over to Tarshish; wail, O dwellers of the island. 7 Is this your joyful city, whose antiquity is from days of old? Her feet will carry her far away to sojourn. 8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the crowning one, whose merchants are princes, her Canaanite traders, nobles of earth? 9 The LORD of hosts has purposed to profane the pride of all beauty, to make light of all the glorious ones of earth. 10 Overflow your land like the sea, daughter of Tarshish—there is no longer any girding on. 11 He extended his hand over the sea; he stirred up the kingdoms. The LORD commanded Canaan to destroy its strongholds. 12 And he said, "You shall not add any more to exult, O oppressed virgin, daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross over to Cyprus; even there it will not be rest for you." 13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this the people was not; Assyria founded it for the desert creatures. They raised up their lair there; they ruined her palaces, to ruins. 14 Howl, ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is plundered. 15 And it will be at that time: Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute. 16 Take a harp, go about the city, you forgotten harlot; skillfully play, multiply songs, so that you may be remembered. 17 And it will be at the end of seventy years that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she will return to her harlotry, and she will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the land on the face of the ground. 18 And her merchandise and her hire will be holy to the LORD; it will not be stored up nor hoarded, for her merchandise will be for those sitting before the LORD—to eat to satiety and for covering antiquity.