以賽亞書 23
1 論泰爾的默示： 他施的船隻都要哀號； 因為泰爾變為荒場， 甚至沒有房屋，沒有可進之路。 這消息是從基提地得來的。
A message about Tyre. Howl, people on the ships of Tarshish! Tyre has been destroyed—nothing is left of the houses and the harbor. They heard the news from the people of Cyprus.
2 沿海的居民， 就是素來靠航海西頓的商家得豐盛的， 你們當靜默無言。
Stay shocked into silence, people of the coastlands, merchants of Sidon, and sailors.
3 在大水之上， 西曷的糧食、 尼羅河的莊稼是泰爾的進項； 她作列國的大碼頭。
Egyptian grain came across the wide oceans. The Nile's harvest was what made Tyre money; she was the merchant to the nations.
4 西頓哪，你當慚愧； 因為大海說， 就是海中的保障說： 我沒有劬勞，也沒有生產， 沒有養育男子，也沒有撫養童女。
Feel the shame, Sidon! For the fortress of the sea says, “I have no children, having never been in labor or given birth. I have not brought up young men or brought up young women.”
5 這風聲傳到埃及； 埃及人為泰爾的風聲極其疼痛。
When the news about Tyre reaches Egypt they will be in agony.
6 泰爾人哪，你們當過到他施去； 沿海的居民哪，你們都當哀號。
Sail across to Tarshish! Howl, people of the coastlands!
7 這是你們歡樂的城， 從上古而有的嗎？ 其中的居民往遠方寄居。
Is this really your triumphant city, whose beginnings are from the distant past, who has sent out people to colonize faraway places?
8 泰爾本是賜冠冕的。 她的商家是王子； 她的買賣人是世上的尊貴人。 遭遇如此是誰定的呢？
Who planned this attack on Tyre? Tyre, who created kingdoms, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were honored around the world!
9 是萬軍之耶和華所定的！ 為要污辱一切高傲的榮耀， 使地上一切的尊貴人被藐視。
The Lord Almighty planned it, to humble its pride in all its glory, and to bring down all who receive worldly honor.
10 他施的民哪， 可以流行你的地，好像尼羅河； 不再有腰帶拘緊你。
Work your land, people of Tarshish, as they do beside the Nile, for you don't have a harbor anymore.
11 耶和華已經向海伸手， 震動列國。 至於迦南， 他已經吩咐拆毀其中的保障。
The Lord held his hand out over the sea and shook kingdoms. He has condemned Phoenicia, giving the order to destroy their fortresses.
12 他又說：受欺壓西頓的居民哪， 你必不得再歡樂。 起來！過到基提去； 就是在那裏也不得安歇。 （
He said, “Don't celebrate any more, mistreated virgin daughter of Sidon. Go and sail over to Cyprus—however, even there you won't find rest.”
13 看哪，迦勒底人之地向來沒有這民，這國是亞述人為住曠野的人所立的。現在他們建築戍樓，拆毀泰爾的宮殿，使她成為荒涼。）
Look at the country of the Babylonians, this people that are not as they used to be! The Assyrians have turned it into a place for desert animals. They set up their siege towers, they demolished the fortresses, and ruined the country.
14 他施的船隻都要哀號， 因為你們的保障變為荒場。
Howl, people on the ships of Tarshish because your fortress is destroyed!
15 到那時，泰爾必被忘記七十年，照着一王的年日。七十年後，泰爾的景況必像妓女所唱的歌：
At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, a king's lifetime, as it were. But at the end of these seventy years, Tyre will be like the song about a prostitute,
16 你這被忘記的妓女啊， 拿琴周流城內， 巧彈多唱，使人再想念你。
“Take a lyre and walk around the city, forgotten prostitute! Play and sing so people will remember you!”
17 七十年後，耶和華必眷顧泰爾，她就仍得利息，與地上的萬國交易。
After seventy years, the Lord will restore Tyre. But then she will go back to hiring herself out as a prostitute, selling herself to all the kingdoms of the world.
18 她的貨財和利息要歸耶和華為聖，必不積攢存留；因為她的貨財必為住在耶和華面前的人所得，使他們吃飽，穿耐久的衣服。
However, her profits and what she earns will consecrated to the Lord. They won't be kept or saved up, for her business earnings will go to those who worship the Lord, to provide them with plenty of food and good clothes.
