Isaiah 23
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.
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。
2 Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea.
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。
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.
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。
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.”
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。
5 When the report reaches Egypt, they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.
這風聲傳到埃及； 埃及人為泰爾的風聲極其疼痛。
6 Cross over to Tarshish; wail, O inhabitants of the coastland!
泰爾人哪，你們當過到他施去； 沿海的居民哪，你們都當哀號。
7 Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?
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。
8 Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?
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？
9 The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.
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。
10 Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer a harbor.
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。
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.
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。
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.”
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。 （
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.
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。）
14 Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!
他施的船隻都要哀號， 因為你們的保障變為荒場。
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:
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：
16 “Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
