Oracle against Tyre

23 The oracle of Tyre:

• Wail, ships of Tarshish, for the house is destroyed so that no one can enter ;[fn]
  • it is announced to them from the land of Cyprus.
• 2 Be still, inhabitants of the coast,
  • merchant of Sidon, who travels over the sea, they filled you.
• 3 And on 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 Be ashamed, Sidon, for 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 Cross over to Tarshish!
  • Wail, inhabitants of the coast!
• 7 Is this your exultant one ,[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 stretched his hand out over the sea;
  • he has made kingdoms shake.
• Yahweh has commanded concerning Canaan
  • to destroy her fortresses.

12 And he said,

• “You will not continue[fn] to exult, crushed one, virgin[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 “Take a harp,
  • 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 presence[fn] of Yahweh,
  • for eating to satiation and for fine clothing.