# Isaiah 23

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/23

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Oracle against Tyre: howl, ships of Tarshish, for it lies destroyed, without house or entrance—from the land of Kittim it has been revealed to them.
2. Be still, island dwellers, whom Sidon's merchants who cross the sea have filled.
3. By great waters the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue, and she was the marketplace of nations.
4. Be ashamed, Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have not labored in birth nor given birth, nor raised young men nor reared virgins."
5. As the rumor reaches Egypt, they will writhe at the rumor of Tyre.
6. Cross over to Tarshish! Howl, you who dwell in the island!
7. Is this your joyous city whose antiquity is from ancient days, whose feet will carry her far away to sojourn?
8. Who has devised this against Tyre, the one who crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honored of the earth?
9. Yahweh of hosts purposed it to defile the pride of all glory, to humble all the honored of the earth.
10. Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no more strength.
11. Yahweh spread his hand over the sea, shook the kingdoms, and commanded the destruction of Canaan's strongholds.
12. He said, "Exult no longer, you oppressed virgin, daughter of Sidon. Rise, cross over to Kittim; even there no rest awaits you."
13. Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this people did not exist. Assyria established it for wilderness dwellers. They raised up its towers, demolished its palaces; he turned it into ruin.
14. Howl, ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is destroyed.
15. On that day Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, spanning the days of one king; after the end of seventy years, it will be for Tyre like the prostitute's song.
16. Take a harp, go about the city, you prostitute who has been forgotten. Play well, strike the strings, sing many songs, so that you may be remembered.
17. It will be at the end of seventy years that Yahweh visits Tyre, and she returns to her hire and prostitutes herself with all the kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground.
18. Her merchandise and her wages will be holy to Yahweh; they will not be stored up or laid away, for her merchandise will be for those dwelling before Yahweh, to eat to satisfaction and for durable clothing.

## Nearby chapters

[Isaiah 22](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/22.md)
[Isaiah 24](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/24.md)

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