Isaiah 23

1 oracle Tyre to wail fleet Tarshish for to ruin from house: home from to come (in): towards from land: country/planet Cyprus to reveal: reveal to/for them

THE WORD CONCERNING TYRE. Howl, ye ships of Carthage; for she has perished, and [men] no longer arrive from the land of the Citians: she is led captive.

2 to wail to dwell coastland to trade Sidon to pass sea to fill you

To whom are the dwellers in the island become like, the merchants of Phoenice, passing over the sea

3 and in/on/with water many seed Shihor harvest Nile produce her and to be profit nation

in great waters, a generation of merchants? as when the harvest is gathered in, [so are] these traders with the nations.

4 be ashamed Sidon for to say sea security [the] sea to/for to say not to twist: writh in pain and not to beget and not to magnify youth to exalt virgin

Be ashamed, O Sidon: the sea has said, yea, the strength of the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins.

5 like/as as which report to/for Egypt to twist: writh in pain like/as report Tyre

Moreover when it shall be heard in Egypt, sorrow shall seize them for Tyre.

6 to pass Tarshish [to] to wail to dwell coastland

Depart ye to Carthage; howl, ye that dwell in this island.

7 this to/for you jubilant from day front: old former her to conduct her foot her from distant to/for to sojourn

Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up?

8 who? to advise this upon Tyre [the] to crown which to trade her ruler merchant her to honor: honour land: country/planet

Who has devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.

9 LORD Hosts to advise her to/for to profane/begin: profane pride all beauty to/for to lighten all to honor: honour land: country/planet

The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.

10 to pass land: country/planet your like/as Nile daughter Tarshish nothing belt still

Till thy land; for ships no more come out of Carthage.

11 hand his to stretch upon [the] sea to tremble kingdom LORD to command to(wards) Canaan to/for to destroy security her

And thy hand prevails no more by sea, which troubled kings: the Lord of hosts has given a command concerning Chanaan, to destroy the strength thereof.

12 and to say not to add: again still to/for to exult [the] to oppress virgin daughter Sidon (Cyprus *Q(k)*) to arise: rise to pass also there not to rest to/for you

And [men] shall say, Ye shall no longer at all continue to insult and injure the daughter of Sidon: and if thou depart to the Citians, neither there shalt thou have rest.

13 look! land: country/planet Chaldea this [the] people not to be Assyria to found her to/for wild beast to arise: raise (tower his *Q(k)*) to strip citadel: palace her to set: make her to/for ruin

And [if thou depart] to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.

14 to wail fleet Tarshish for to ruin security your

Howl, ye ships of Carthage: for your strong hold is destroyed.

15 and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it and to forget Tyre seventy year like/as day king one from end seventy year to be to/for Tyre like/as song [the] to fornicate

And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, [that] Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.

16 to take: take lyre to turn: turn city to fornicate to forget be good to play to multiply song because to remember

Take a harp, go about, O city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many [songs], that thou mayest be remembered.

17 and to be from end seventy year to reckon: visit LORD [obj] Tyre and to return: return to/for wages her and to fornicate with all kingdom [the] land: country/planet upon face: surface [the] land: planet

And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, [that] God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

18 and to be profit her and wages her holiness to/for LORD not to store and not to hoard for to/for to dwell to/for face: before LORD to be profit her to/for to eat to/for satiety and to/for covering surpassing

And her trade and her gain shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be gathered for them, but for those that dwell before the Lord, [even] all her trade, to eat and drink and be filled, and for a covenant [and] a memorial before the Lord.