Isaiah 22:15-23:18

New International Version

“Go, say to this steward,
    to Shebna^(A) the palace^(B) administrator:^(C)
16 What are you doing here and who gave you permission
    to cut out a grave^(D) for yourself^(E) here,
hewing your grave on the height
    and chiseling your resting place in the rock?

¹⁷ “Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you
    and hurl^(F) you away, you mighty man.
¹⁸ He will roll you up tightly like a ball
    and throw^(G) you into a large country.
There you will die
    and there the chariots^(H) you were so proud of
    will become a disgrace to your master’s house.
¹⁹ I will depose you from your office,
    and you will be ousted^(I) from your position.^(J)

Wail,^(AA) you ships^(AB) of Tarshish!^(AC)
    For Tyre is destroyed^(AD)
    and left without house or harbor.
From the land of Cyprus
    word has come to them.

² Be silent,^(AE) you people of the island
    and you merchants^(AF) of Sidon,^(AG)
    whom the seafarers have enriched.
³ On the great waters
    came the grain of the Shihor;^(AH)
the harvest of the Nile^[b](AI) was the revenue of Tyre,^(AJ)
    and she became the marketplace of the nations.

⁴ Be ashamed, Sidon,^(AK) and you fortress of the sea,
    for the sea has spoken:
“I have neither been in labor nor given birth;^(AL)
    I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”
⁵ When word comes to Egypt,
    they will be in anguish^(AM) at the report from Tyre.^(AN)

⁶ Cross over to Tarshish;^(AO)
    wail, you people of the island.
⁷ Is this your city of revelry,^(AP)
    the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
    to settle in far-off lands?
⁸ Who planned this against Tyre,
    the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants^(AQ) are princes,
    whose traders^(AR) are renowned in the earth?
⁹ The Lord Almighty planned^(AS) it,
    to bring down^(AT) her pride in all her splendor
    and to humble^(AU) all who are renowned^(AV) on the earth.

¹⁰ Till^[c] your land as they do along the Nile,
    Daughter Tarshish,
    for you no longer have a harbor.
¹¹ The Lord has stretched out his hand^(AW) over the sea
    and made its kingdoms tremble.^(AX)
He has given an order concerning Phoenicia
    that her fortresses be destroyed.^(AY)
12 He said, “No more of your reveling,^(AZ)
    Virgin Daughter^(BA) Sidon, now crushed!

“Up, cross over to Cyprus;^(BB)
    even there you will find no rest.”
¹³ Look at the land of the Babylonians,^[d](BC)
    this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians^(BD) have made it
    a place for desert creatures;^(BE)
they raised up their siege towers,^(BF)
    they stripped its fortresses bare
    and turned it into a ruin.^(BG)

¹⁴ Wail, you ships^(BH) of Tarshish;^(BI)
    your fortress is destroyed!^(BJ)

¹⁶ “Take up a harp, walk through the city,
    you forgotten prostitute;^(BM)
play the harp well, sing many a song,
    so that you will be remembered.”