Isaiah 23:1-4

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
    for your fortress is destroyed.^[a]
When they came in from Cyprus
    they learned of it.
² Be still, O inhabitants of the coast,
    O merchants of Sidon;
your messengers crossed over the sea^[b]
3     and were on the mighty waters;
your revenue was the grain of Shihor,
    the harvest of the Nile;
    you were the merchant of the nations.
⁴ Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken,
    the fortress of the sea, saying:
‘I have neither laboured nor given birth,
    I have neither reared young men
    nor brought up young women.’