Isaiah 23

1The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.Cross-references: Gen 10:4 · Num 24:24 · Josh 19:29 · 1Ki 5:1 · 1Ki 10:22 · 1Ki 22:48 · +20 more

2Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon that pass over the sea have replenished.Cross-references: Ps 46:10 · Isa 41:1 · Isa 47:5 · Ezek 27:3 · Ezek 27:8 · Ezek 28:2 · +1 more

3On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.Cross-references: Deut 11:10 · 1Chr 13:5 · Isa 19:7 · Isa 23:8 · Isa 32:20 · Jer 2:18 · +5 more

4Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”Cross-references: Gen 10:15 · Gen 10:19 · Jer 47:3 · Ezek 26:3 · Hos 9:11 · Rev 18:23

5When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.Cross-references: Ex 15:14 · Josh 2:9 · Isa 19:16 · Ezek 26:15 · Ezek 27:29 · Ezek 28:19 · +1 more

6Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!Cross-references: Isa 16:7 · Isa 21:15 · Isa 23:1 · Isa 23:10 · Isa 23:12

7Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?Cross-references: Josh 19:29 · Eccl 10:7 · Isa 22:2 · Isa 32:13 · Isa 47:1

8Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?Cross-references: Deut 29:24 · Isa 10:8 · Isa 36:9 · Jer 50:44 · Ezek 28:2 · Ezek 28:12 · +1 more

9Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.Cross-references: Job 12:21 · Job 40:11 · Ps 107:40 · Isa 2:11 · Isa 2:17 · Isa 5:13 · +16 more

10Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.Cross-references: 1Sam 28:20 · Job 12:21 · Ps 18:32 · Isa 23:14 · Lam 1:6 · Hag 2:22 · +1 more

11He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.Cross-references: Gen 9:25 · Gen 10:15 · Ex 14:21 · Ex 15:8 · Ps 46:6 · Ps 71:3 · +17 more

12He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”Cross-references: Gen 10:15 · Gen 49:13 · Num 24:24 · Deut 28:64 · Josh 11:8 · Isa 23:1 · +12 more

13Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.Cross-references: Gen 2:14 · Gen 10:10 · Gen 11:9 · Gen 11:28 · Gen 11:31 · 2Ki 17:24 · +13 more

14Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!Cross-references: Isa 2:16 · Isa 23:1 · Isa 23:6 · Ezek 27:25 · Rev 18:11

15It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.Cross-references: Jer 25:9 · Jer 25:22 · Jer 27:3 · Jer 29:10 · Ezek 27:25 · Ezek 29:11 · +4 more

16Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.Cross-references: Prov 7:10 · Jer 30:14

17It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre. She will return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.Cross-references: Deut 23:18 · Jer 29:10 · Ezek 16:26 · Ezek 16:31 · Ezek 22:13 · Ezek 27:6 · +12 more

18Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.Cross-references: Ex 28:36 · Deut 12:18 · Deut 26:12 · 2Chr 2:7 · 2Chr 2:11 · Ps 45:12 · +21 more