The Fall of Tyre
1 The (a)oracle concerning (A)Tyre.
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Be ashamed, O (J)Sidon;
For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,
“I have neither travailed nor given birth,
I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins.”
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For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,
“I have neither travailed nor given birth,
I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins.”
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Who has planned this against Tyre, (N)the bestower of crowns,
Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?
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Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?
13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people which was not; (X)Assyria appointed it for (Y)desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, (Z)they made it a ruin.
15 Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for (AB)seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
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Take your harp, walk about the city,
O forgotten harlot;
Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs,
That you may be remembered.
O forgotten harlot;
Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs,
That you may be remembered.
17 It will come about at (AC)the end of seventy years that the Lord will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot’s wages and will (AD)play the harlot with all the kingdoms (j)on the face of the earth.
18 Her (AE)gain and her harlot’s wages will be (AF)set apart to the Lord; it will not be stored up or hoarded, but her gain will become sufficient food and choice attire for those who dwell in the presence of the Lord.
Footnotes:
a.
Isaiah 23:1: ['Or ', burden of]
b.
Isaiah 23:1: ['Lit ', entering]
c.
Isaiah 23:1: ['Heb ', Kittim]
d.
Isaiah 23:2: ['So DSS; M.T. ', Who passed over the sea, they replenished you]
e.
Isaiah 23:3: ['Heb ', Shihor]
f.
Isaiah 23:7: ['Lit ', sojourn afar off]
g.
Isaiah 23:10: ['Lit ', Pass over]
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Isaiah 23:10: ['Perhaps ', girdle, ' or ', shipyard]
i.
Isaiah 23:12: ['Heb ', Kittim]
j.
Isaiah 23:17: ['Lit ', of the earth on the face of the land]
Cross references:
A.
Isaiah 23:1:
Joshua 19:29; Jeremiah 25:22; Jeremiah 47:4; Ezekiel 26:1-27; Joel 3:4-8; Amos 1:9; Zechariah 9:2-4
J.
Isaiah 23:4:
Genesis 10:15; Genesis 10:19; Joshua 11:8; Judges 10:6; Jeremiah 25:22; Jeremiah 27:3; Jeremiah 47:4; Ezekiel 28:21; Ezekiel 28:22
AC.
Isaiah 23:17:
Isaiah 23:15