23An oracle concerning Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish! For Tyre is destroyed and left without house or harbor. From the land of Cyprus word has come to them.H4853H6865H3213H591H8659H7703H1004H935H776H3794H15402Be silent, you people of the island and you merchants of Sidon, whom the seafarers have enriched.H1826H3427H339H5503H6721H5674H3220H43903On the great waters came the grain of the Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre, and she became the marketplace of the nations.H7227H4325H2233H7883H7105H2975H8393H5505H14714Be ashamed, O Sidon, and you, O fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: "I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters."H954H6721H3220H559H4581H3220H559H2342H3205H1431H970H7311H13305When word comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.H8088H4714H2342H8088H68656Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you people of the island.H5674H8659H3213H3427H3397Is this your city of revelry, the old, old city, whose feet have taken her to settle in far-off lands?H5947H6927H6924H3117H7272H2986H7350H14818Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are renowned in the earth?H3289H6865H5849H5503H8269H3667H3513H7769The LORD Almighty planned it, to bring low the pride of all glory and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.H3068H6635H3289H2490H1347H6643H7043H3513H77610Till your land as along the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish, for you no longer have a harbor.H5674H776H2975H1323H8659H420611The LORD has stretched out his hand over the sea and made its kingdoms tremble. He has given an order concerning Phoenicia that her fortresses be destroyed.H5186H3027H3220H7264H4467H3068H6680H3667H8045H4581H458112He said, "No more of your reveling, O Virgin Daughter of Sidon, now crushed! "Up, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest."H559H3254H5937H6231H1330H1323H6721H6965H5674H3794H511713Look at the land of the Babylonians, this people that is now of no account! The Assyrians have made it a place for desert creatures; they raised up their siege towers, they stripped its fortresses bare and turned it into a ruin.H776H3778H5971H804H3245H6728H6965H971H6209H759H7760H465414Wail, you ships of Tarshish; your fortress is destroyed!H3213H591H8659H4581H770315At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king's life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:H3117H6865H7911H7657H8141H3117H259H4428H7093H7657H8141H6865H7892H218116"Take up a harp, walk through the city, O prostitute forgotten; play the harp well, sing many a song, so that you will be remembered."H3947H3658H5437H5892H2181H7911H3190H5059H7235H7892H214217At the end of seventy years, the LORD will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire as a prostitute and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.H7093H7657H8141H3068H6485H6865H7725H868H2181H4467H776H6440H12718Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the LORD; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothes.H5504H868H6944H3068H686H2630H5504H3427H6440H3068H398H7654H6266H4374