Isaiah 23:1-8

The Lord Will Judge Tyre

23:1 Here is a message about Tyre:

Wail, you large ships,

for the port is too devastated to enter!

From the land of Cyprus this news is announced to them.

23:2 Lament, you residents of the coast,

you merchants of Sidon who travel over the sea,

whose agents sail over 23:3 the deep waters!

Grain from the Shihor region,

crops grown near the Nile she receives;

she is the trade center of the nations.

23:4 Be ashamed, O Sidon,

for the sea says this, O fortress of the sea:

“I have not gone into labor

or given birth;

I have not raised young men

or brought up young women.”

23:5 When the news reaches Egypt,

they will be shaken by what has happened to Tyre.

23:6 Travel to Tarshish!

Wail, you residents of the coast!

23:7 Is this really your boisterous city

whose origins are in the distant past,

and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?

23:8 Who planned this for royal Tyre,

whose merchants are princes,

whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?