Isaiah 22:15-23:18

New American Standard Bible

¹⁵This is what the Lord ^[a]God of armies says:

“Come, go to this steward,
To ^(A)Shebna who is in charge of the royal household,
¹⁶‘What right do you have here,
And whom do you have here,
That you have ^(B)cut out a tomb for yourself here,
You who cut out a tomb on the height,
You who carve a resting place for ^[b]yourself in the rock?
¹⁷Behold, the Lord is about to hurl you violently, you strong man.
And He is about to grasp you firmly
¹⁸And wrap you up tightly like a ball,
To be ^(C)driven into a vast country;
There you will die,
And there your splendid chariots will be,
You shame of your master’s house!’
¹⁹I will ^(D)depose you from your office,
And ^[c]I will pull you down from your position.
²⁰Then it will come about on that day,
That I will summon My servant ^(E)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
²¹And I will clothe him with your tunic
And tie your sash securely around him.
I will hand your ^[d]authority over to him,
And he will become a ^(F)father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
²²Then I will put ^(G)the key of the ^(H)house of David on his shoulder;
When he opens, no one will shut,
When he shuts, no one will ^(I)open.
²³I will drive him like a ^(J)peg in a firm place,
And he will become a ^(K)throne of glory to his father’s house.

²⁴So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the ^[e]descendants, all the least of vessels, from bowls to all the jars. ²⁵On that day,” declares the Lord of armies, “the ^(L)peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will even ^(M)break off and fall, and the load that is hanging on it will be cut off, for the ^(N)Lord has spoken.”

The Fall of Tyre

23 The pronouncement concerning ^(O)Tyre:

Wail, you ^(P)ships of ^(Q)Tarshish,
For Tyre is destroyed, without house or ^[f]^(R)harbor;
It is reported to them from the land of ^[g]^(S)Cyprus.
²^(T)Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You merchants of Sidon;
^[h]Your messengers crossed the sea
³And were on many waters.
^(U)The grain of the ^[i]^(V)Nile, the harvest of the River was her revenue;
And she was the ^(W)market of nations.
⁴Be ashamed, ^(X)Sidon,
For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,
“I have neither been in labor nor given birth,
I have neither brought up young men nor raised virgins.”
⁵When the report reaches Egypt,
They will be in ^(Y)anguish over the report of Tyre.
⁶Pass over to ^(Z)Tarshish;
Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland.
⁷Is this your ^(AA)jubilant city,
Whose origin is from antiquity,
Whose feet used to bring her to ^[j]colonize distant places?

⁸Who has planned this against Tyre, ^(AB)the bestower of crowns,
Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?
⁹^(AC)The Lord of armies has planned it, to ^(AD)defile the pride of all beauty,
To despise all the ^(AE)honored of the earth.
¹⁰^[k]Overflow your land like the Nile, you daughter of Tarshish,
There is no more ^[l]restraint.
¹¹He has ^(AF)stretched His hand out ^(AG)over the sea,
He has ^(AH)made the kingdoms tremble;
The Lord has given a command concerning Canaan to ^(AI)demolish its strongholds.

¹²He has said, “^(AJ)You shall not be jubilant anymore, you crushed virgin daughter of Sidon.
Arise, pass over to ^[m]^(AK)Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.”

¹³Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people that did not exist; ^(AL)Assyria allocated it for ^(AM)desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, ^(AN)they made it a ruin.

¹⁴Wail, you ^(AO)ships of Tarshish,
For your stronghold is destroyed.

¹⁵Now on that day Tyre will be forgotten for ^(AP)seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

¹⁶Take your harp, wander around the city,
You forgotten prostitute;
Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs,
That you may be remembered.

¹⁷It will come about at ^(AQ)the end of seventy years that the Lord will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her prostitute’s wages and ^(AR)commit prostitution with all the kingdoms ^[n]on the face of the earth. ¹⁸Her ^(AS)profit and her prostitute’s wages will be ^(AT)sacred to the Lord; it will not be stored up or hoarded, but her profit will become sufficient food and magnificent attire for those who dwell in the presence of the Lord.