# Isaiah 23

> Lumin Translation

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

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. An oracle concerning Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is destroyed, left without house or harbor! From the land of Cyprus word has reached them.
2. Be silent, you who live on the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, who cross the sea, have made rich.
3. On many waters came the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; it was her revenue, and she became the marketplace of the nations.
4. Be ashamed, Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea: “I have not been in labor or given birth; I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
5. When the report reaches Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report about Tyre.
6. Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you who live on the coast!
7. Is this your exultant city, whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle in lands far away?
8. Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honored of the earth?
9. Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to defile the pride of all its glory, to bring into contempt all the honored of the earth.
10. Overflow your land like the Nile, Daughter Tarshish; there is no restraint anymore.
11. He has stretched out his hand over the sea; he has made kingdoms tremble. Yahweh has given a command concerning Canaan, to destroy its strongholds.
12. He said, “You will exult no more, you oppressed virgin, Daughter Sidon. Get up, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.”
13. Look at the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people that is no more. Assyria destined it for desert creatures. They set up their siege towers, they stripped its palaces bare, they made it a ruin.
14. Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is destroyed!
15. On that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the life span of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song about the prostitute:
16. “Take up a lyre, go around the city, you forgotten prostitute; play the strings well, sing many songs, so that you will be remembered.”
17. At the end of seventy years Yahweh will turn his attention to Tyre, and she will return to her prostitute’s wages and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
18. But her profits and her wages will be holy to Yahweh; they will not be stored up or hoarded, for her profits will go to those who live in the presence of Yahweh, to give them plenty to eat and fine 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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