Isaiæ 23
1 Onus Tyri. Ululate naves maris: quia vastata est domus, unde venire consueverant: de Terra Cethim revelatum est eis.
The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.
2 Tacete qui habitatis in insula: negotiatores Sidonis transfretantes mare, repleverunt te.
Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters;
3 In aquis multis semen Nili, messis fluminis fruges eius: et facta est negotiatio gentium.
Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of the nations.
4 Erubesce Sidon: ait enim mare: fortitudo maris dicit: Non parturivi, et non peperi, et non enutrivi iuvenes, nec ad incrementum perduxi virgines.
Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins.
5 Cum auditum fuerit in Aegypto, dolebunt cum audierint de Tiro:
When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre.
6 Transite maria, ululate qui habitatis in insula:
Go over to Tarshish; give cries of sorrow, O men of the sea-land.
7 Numquid non vestra haec est, quae gloriabatur a diebus pristinis in antiquitate sua? ducent eam pedes sui longe ad peregrinandum.
Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?
8 Quis cogitavit hoc super Tyrum quondam coronatam, cuius negotiatores principes, institores eius inclyti terrae?
By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?
9 Dominus exercituum cogitavit hoc, ut detraheret superbiam omnis gloriae, et ad ignominiam deduceret universos inclytos terrae.
It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.
10 Transi terram tuam quasi flumen filia maris, non est cingulum ultra tibi.
Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.
11 Manum suam extendit super mare, conturbavit regna: Dominus mandavit adversus Chanaan, ut contereret fortes eius,
His hand is stretched out over the sea, the kingdoms are shaking: the Lord has given orders about Canaan, to make waste its strong places.
12 et dixit: Non adiicies ultra ut glorieris, calumniam sustinens virgo filia Sidonis: in Cethim consurgens transfreta, ibi quoque non erit requies tibi.
And he said, There is no more joy for you, O crushed virgin daughter of Zidon: up! go over to Kittim; even there you will have no rest.
13 Ecce terra Chaldaeorum talis populus non fuit, Assur fundavit eam: in captivitatem traduxerunt robustos eius, suffoderunt domos eius, posuerunt eam in ruinam.
14 Ululate naves maris, quia devastata est fortitudo vestra.
Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste.
15 Et erit in die illa: In oblivione eris o Tyre septuaginta annis, sicut dies regis unius: post septuaginta autem annos erit Tyro quasi canticum meretricis.
And it will be in that day that Tyre will go out of mind for seventy years, that is, the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre as in the song of the loose woman.
16 Sume citharam, circui civitatem meretrix oblivioni tradita: bene cane, frequenta canticum ut memoria tui sit.
Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men's minds.
17 Et erit post septuaginta annos: Visitabit Dominus Tyrum, et reducet eam ad merces suas: et rursum fornicabitur cum universis regnis terrae super faciem terrae.
And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
18 Et erunt negotiationes eius, et merces eius sanctificatae Domino: non condentur, neque reponentur: quia his, qui habitaverint coram Domino, erit negotiatio eius, ut manducent in saturitatem, et vestiantur usque ad vetustatem.
And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing.
