23 A message for Tsor (Tyre):[ref]

Cry loudly, you ships from Tarshish because your home port has been destroyed. It’s been reported to them from Kittim (Cyprus ). 2 Be silent you who live along the coast, you traders from Tsidon (Sidon) who cross the ocean to be filled. 3 The grain from Shihor across the waters and the harvest from the Nile became hers, and it became the commerce of the nations.

4 Be ashamed Tsidon because the ocean has spoken.

The stronghold by the sea said,

‘I haven’t been in labour or given birth,

≈ and I haven’t raised young men or young women.’

5 When the report reaches Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim),

they’ll be very upset about what happened to Tsor.

6 Sail over to Tarshish.

Cry loudly, you who live along the coast.

7 Is this your happy city that’s been around since ancient times—

whose feet carried her to settle in a far away place?

8 Who planned that for Tyre, the bestower of crowns,

whose traders are princes,

≈ whose merchants were honoured around the world?

9 Commander-in-chief Yahweh planned it to dishonour the pride from all that splendour—

≈ to treat the honoured people of the world with contempt.

10 Go across your land like the river does.

You daughter of Tarshish, there’s no restraint any more.

11 He’s stretched his hand over the ocean.

He’s made the kingdoms tremble.

Yahweh has commanded Kanaan to destroy its fortresses.

12 He said, ‘You won’t continue celebrating, you oppressed young daughter of Tsidon.

Take action and go across to Cyprus but you won’t get any peace there.’

13 Look at the Chaldeans’ country—those people have come to nothing.

The Assyrians allocated it to animals that live in the wilderness.

They erected siege-towers against it—

demolishing its palaces and turning it into a pile of rubble.

14 Cry loudly, you ships from Tarshish.

because your fortress has been destroyed.

15 After that time, Tsor (Tyre) will be forgotten for seventy years like the lifespan of a single king. At the end of those seventy years, what will happen to Tsor will be like the prostitute in this song:

16 Take a harp and go around the city, you forgotten prostitute.

^ Play many songs so that you’ll be remembered.

17 Then at the end of those seventy years, Yahweh will visit Tsor. It’ll return to hiring itself out and to her prostitution with all the world’s kingdoms on this planet. 18 But their earnings and profits will be set apart for Yahweh. It won’t be stored up or hoarded, because it will belong to those who live in Yahweh’s presence for buying plenty of food and beautiful clothes.