# Isaiah 23

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] This is the burden against Tyre:
Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for Tyre is laid waste,
without house or harbor.
Word has reached them
from the land of Cyprus. [2] Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland,
you merchants of Sidon,
whose traders have crossed the sea. [3] On the great waters
came the grain of Shihor;
the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre;
she was the merchant of the nations. [4] Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea,
for the sea has spoken:
“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 writhe in agony over the news of Tyre. [6] Cross over to Tarshish;
wail, O inhabitants of the coastland! [7] Is this your jubilant city,
whose origin is from antiquity,
whose feet have taken her
to settle far away? [8] Who planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose traders are princes,
whose merchants are renowned on the earth? [9] The LORD of Hosts planned it,
to defile all its glorious beauty,
to disgrace all the renowned of the earth. [10] Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish;
there is no longer a harbor. [11] The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea;
He has made kingdoms tremble.
He has given a command
that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed. [12] He said, “You shall rejoice no more,
O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon.
Get up and cross over to Cyprus—
even there you will find no rest.” [13] Look at the land of the Chaldeans —
a people now of no account.
The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures;
they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces.
They brought it to ruin. [14] Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for your harbor has been destroyed! [15] At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: [16] “Take up your harp,
stroll through the city,
O forgotten harlot.
Make sweet melody,
sing many a song,
so you will be remembered.” [17] And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. [18] Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.

## Places in this chapter

- **Tyre** (Phoenicia · today Sur) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/tyre
- **Sidon** (Phoenicia · today Saida) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/sidon
- **Cyprus** (Mediterranean · today Cyprus) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/cyprus
- **Canaan** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/canaan
- **Assyria** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/assyria
- **Egypt** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/egypt
- **Nile** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/nile
- **Babylon 1** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/babylon-1
- **Chaldea** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/chaldea
- **Shihor 2** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/shihor-2
- **Tarshish 1** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/tarshish-1

## Each verse

- Isaiah 23:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/1
- Isaiah 23:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/2
- Isaiah 23:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/3
- Isaiah 23:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/4
- Isaiah 23:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/5
- Isaiah 23:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/6
- Isaiah 23:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/7
- Isaiah 23:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/8
- Isaiah 23:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/9
- Isaiah 23:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/10
- Isaiah 23:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/11
- Isaiah 23:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/12
- Isaiah 23:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/13
- Isaiah 23:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/14
- Isaiah 23:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/15
- Isaiah 23:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/16
- Isaiah 23:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/17
- Isaiah 23:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/23/18