Oracle against Tyre

• 23 The oracle of Tyre:Wail, ships of Tarshish, for[fn]
  • it is announced to them from the land of Cyprus.
  • 2 the coast, merchant of Sidon, who travels over the sea, they filled you.
  • 3 the great waters is the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile is its produce,
  • and she was the merchandise of the nations.
  • 4 the sea, the fortress of the sea said, saying,
• “I was not in labor,
  • and I have not given birth,
• and I have not reared young men,
  • brought[fn] up young women.”

5 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report about[fn] Tyre.

• 6 to Tarshish! Wail, inhabitants of the coast!
• 7 [fn] her origin from the days of long ago? Her feet brought her to dwell afar as an alien.
• 8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,[fn] whose merchants were princes,
  • her traders the honored ones of the earth?
• 9 Yahweh of hosts has planned it:to defile the pride of all glory,
  • to humble all the honored ones of the earth.

10 Cross over your own land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish;there is no longer a harbor.[fn]

• 11 he has made kingdoms shake.

Yahweh has commanded concerning Canaan to destroy her fortresses.

• 12 And he said,“You will not[fn] to exult, crushed one, [fn] daughter of Sidon.
  • Arise, cross over to Cyprus! There will be no rest for you even there.”

13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans! This people no longer exists.Assyria destined[fn] it for wild animals.

• They erected its siege towers;
  • they demolished its citadel fortresses.
  • It made her like a ruin.

14 Wail, ships of Tarshish! For your fortress is destroyed.

15 And this will happen on that day:And Tyre will be forgotten seventy years,[fn]

like the days of one king.

At the end of seventy years,[fn] it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute:

• 16 go around the city, forgotten prostitute!
• Do it well, playing a stringed instrument!
  • Make numerous songs,[fn] that you may be remembered.”

17 And this shall happen:at the end of seventy years,[fn] Yahweh will visit Tyre,

• and she will return to her harlot’s wages,
  • and she will commit fornication
• with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

18 And this shall happen:her merchandise and her harlot’s wages will be set apart for Yahweh;

• it will not be stored up,
  • and it will not be hoarded,
• but her merchandise will be for those who live before the[fn] of Yahweh,
  • for eating to satiation and for fine clothing.