An Oracle Concerning Tyre

¹The oracle of Tyre.[#Ge 10:4; Eze 26:1–28:26; Joel 3:4–8; Am 1:9–10]

Wail, O ships of Tarshish,

for Tyre is laid waste

so that there is no house or harbor;

from the land of Cyprus

it is reported to them.

²Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland,[#Isa 47:5]

you merchants of Sidon;

your messengers passed over the sea,

³and were on many waters;

the grain of the Nile,

the harvest of the River was her revenue;

and she was the market of nations.

⁴Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken,

even the stronghold of the sea, saying,

“I have not travailed or brought forth children;

neither have I brought up young men nor raised virgins.”

⁵When the report reaches Egypt,

they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

⁶Pass over to Tarshish;

wail, O inhabitants of the coastland.

⁷Is this your joyous city,[#Isa 22:2]

whose origin is from ancient days,

whose feet used to carry her

to sojourn in distant locations?

⁸Who has planned this against Tyre,

the crowning city,

whose merchants are princes,

whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

⁹The Lord of Hosts has purposed it,

to stain the pride of all glory

and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

¹⁰Pass through your land as the Nile,

O daughter of Tarshish;

there is no more restraint.

¹¹He stretched out His hand over the sea,[#Ex 14:21]

He shook the kingdoms;

the Lord has given a command against the merchant city,

to destroy its strongholds.

¹²He said: You shall rejoice no more,[#Rev 18:22]

O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon.

Arise, pass over to Cyprus;

there also you shall have no rest.

¹³Behold the land of the Chaldeans;

this was a people who was not;

Assyria founded it

for those who dwell in the wilderness.

They set up their siege towers,

they stripped its palaces,

and brought it to ruin.

¹⁴Wail, O ships of Tarshish,[#Isa 23:1]

for your stronghold is laid waste.

¹⁵In that day Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years Tyre shall sing as a harlot:[#Jer 25:22]

¹⁶Take your harp, go about the city,

O forgotten harlot;

make sweet melody, sing many songs,

that you may be remembered.

¹⁷At the end of seventy years, the Lord will punish Tyre. Then she shall turn to her harlot’s wages and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.[#Na 3:4]

¹⁸Her merchandise and her harlot’s wages shall be set apart to the Lord . It shall not be treasured or stored up, for her merchandise shall be for those who dwell before the Lord , to eat sufficiently, and for choice clothing.[#Ps 72:10]