Isaiah 23:1-2

Contemporary English Version

The City of Tyre Will Be Punished

23 ^(A) This is a message from distant islands about the city of Tyre:^[a]

Cry, you seagoing ships!^[b]
Tyre and its houses
    lie in ruins.^[c]
²Mourn in silence,
you shop owners of Sidon,^[d]
    you people on the coast.
Your sailors crossed oceans,
    making your city rich.

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Footnotes

23.1 Tyre: A fortress city built on an island in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of what is now Lebanon.
23.1 seagoing ships: See the note at 2.16.
23.1 Tyre … ruins: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
23.2 Sidon: A coastal city just north of Tyre.