Isaías 23
1 Peso de Tiro. Uivai, navios de Tharsis, porque já assolada está até nela casa nenhuma mais ficar e nela ninguém mais entrar: desde a terra de Chittim lhes foi isto revelado.
[I received] this message [from Yahweh] about Tyre [city]: You [sailors on] [APO] ships from Tarshish, weep, because [the harbor of] Tyre and all the houses [in the city] have been destroyed. The reports that you heard in Cyprus [island] about Tyre [are true].
2 Calai-vos, moradores da ilha, vós a quem encheram os mercadores de Sidon, navegando pelo mar.
You people who live along the coast [near Tyre], and merchants of Sidon [city], mourn silently. Your sailors went across the seas [to many places like Tyre].
3 E a sua provisão era a semente de Sichor, que vinha com as muitas águas da sega do rio, e era a feira das nações.
They sailed across deep seas to buy grain in Egypt and [other] crops that are grown along the Nile [River]. Tyre became the city where people from [all] nations bought and sold goods.
4 Envergonha-te, ó Sidon, porque já o mar, a fortaleza do mar, fala, dizendo: Eu não tive dores de parto, nem pari, nem ainda criei mancebos, nem eduquei donzelas.
But now you people in Sidon should be ashamed, because [you trusted in Tyre], which has been a strong fortress [on an island] in the sea. [Tyre is like a woman who is saying], “[Now it is as though] I have not given birth to [any] children, or raised [any] sons or daughters.”
5 Como com as novas do Egito, assim haverá dores quando se ouvirem as de Tiro.
When [the people of] Egypt hear what has happened to Tyre, they will grieve very much.
6 Passai a Tharsis: uivai, moradores da ilha.
Sail to Tarshish [and tell them what happened]; weep, you people who live along the coast.
7 É esta porventura a vossa cidade que andava pulando de alegria? cuja antiguidade é dos dias antigos? pois leva-la-ão os seus próprios pés para longe andarem a peregrinar.
[The people in] the very old city [of Tyre] were [RHQ] previously joyful. Traders [PRS] from Tyre established colonies in many distant nations.
8 Quem formou este desígnio contra Tiro, a coroadora? cujos mercadores são príncipes e cujos negociantes os mais nobres da terra?
People from Tyre appointed kings [over other places]; their traders were wealthy; they were [as powerful and wealthy as] [MET] kings. [So], who [RHQ] caused the people of Tyre to experience this disaster?
9 O Senhor dos exércitos formou este desígnio para profanar a soberba de todo o ornamento, e envilecer os mais nobres da terra.
It was the Commander of the armies of angels who did it; he did it in order to cause [you people in] Tyre not to be proud any more, to humiliate you men who are honored all over the world.
10 Passa-te como rio pela tua terra, ó filha de Tharsis, pois já não há precinta.
You people of Tarshish, you must grow crops in your land [instead of trading]; spread out over your land like [SIM] the Nile [River] spreads over the land [of Egypt] when it floods, because there is no harbor [in Tyre for your ships] now.
11 A sua mão estendeu sobre o mar, e turbou os reinos: o Senhor deu mandado contra Canaan, que se destruíssem as suas fortalezas.
[It is as though] Yahweh stretched out his hand over the sea and shook the kingdoms of the earth. He commanded that in Phoenicia/Canaan all its fortresses must be destroyed.
12 E disse: Nunca mais pularás de alegria, ó oprimida donzela, filha de Sidon: levanta-te, passa a Chittim, e ainda ali não terás descanço.
He said to the people of Sidon, “You will never rejoice again, because you will be crushed; even if you flee to Cyprus [island], you will not escape destruction.”
13 Vede a terra dos caldeus, ainda este povo não era povo; a Assyria o fundou para os que moravam no deserto: levantaram as suas fortalezas, e edificaram os seus paços; porém a arruinou de todo.
Think about what happened in Babylonia: the people who were in that land have disappeared. [The armies of] Assyria have caused that land to become a place where wild animals from the desert live. The Assyrians built dirt ramps to the top of the walls [of the city of Babylon]; [then they entered the city and] tore down the palaces and caused the city to become [a heap of] rubble.
14 Uivai, navios de Tharsis, porque já é destruída a vossa força.
[So] wail, you [sailors on the] ships of Tarshish, because the harbor [in Tyre where your ships stop] is destroyed!
15 E será naquele dia que Tiro será posta em esquecimento por setenta anos, como os dias dum rei: porém no fim de setenta anos haverá em Tiro cantigas, como a cantiga de uma prostituta.
For seventy years, which is as long as kings usually live, people will forget about Tyre. [But then it will be rebuilt]. What will happen there will be like what happened to a prostitute in this song:
16 Toma a harpa, rodeia a cidade, ó prostituta entregue ao esquecimento; toca bem, canta e repete a aria, para que haja memória de ti.
“You harlot, whom people had forgotten, play your harp well, and sing many songs, in order that people will remember you again.”
17 Porque será no fim de setenta anos que o Senhor visitará a Tiro, e se tornará à sua ganância de prostituta, e fornicará com todos os reinos da terra que há sobre a face da terra.
[It is true that] after seventy years Yahweh will restore Tyre. Their merchants will again earn a lot of money by buying things from and selling things to many [other] nations [HYP].
18 E o seu comércio e a sua ganância de prostituta será consagrado ao Senhor; não se entesourará, nem se fechará; mas o seu comércio será para os que habitam perante o Senhor, para que comam até se saciarem, e tenham vestimenta durável.
[But] their profits will be given to Yahweh. [The merchants] will not hoard their money; instead, they will give it to Yahweh’s priests in order that they [can] buy food and nice clothes.
