Isaiah 22:15-23:18

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¹⁵Thus says the Lord God of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to ^(A)Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: ¹⁶What have you to do here, and whom have you here, ^(B)that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you ^(C)who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock? ¹⁷Behold, the Lord will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. ^(D)He will seize firm hold on you ¹⁸and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be ^(E)your glorious chariots, you shame of your master's house. ¹⁹^(F)I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station. ²⁰In that day I will call my servant ^(G)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, ²¹and ^(H)I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be ^(I)a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. ²²And I will place ^(J)on his shoulder ^(K)the key of the house of David. ^(L)He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. ²³And I will fasten him ^(M)like a peg in a secure place, and he will become ^(N)a throne of honor to his father's house. ²⁴And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father's house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons. ²⁵In that day, declares the Lord of hosts, ^(O)the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.”

An Oracle Concerning Tyre and Sidon

23 The ^(P)oracle concerning ^(Q)Tyre.

Wail, O ^(R)ships of Tarshish,
    for Tyre is laid waste, ^(S)without house or harbor!
From ^(T)the land of Cyprus^[a]
    it is revealed to them.
²Be still, O inhabitants of the coast;
    the merchants of ^(U)Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you.
³And on many waters
your revenue was the grain of Shihor,
    the harvest of the Nile;
    you were ^(V)the merchant of the nations.
⁴Be ashamed, O ^(W)Sidon, for the sea has spoken,
    the stronghold of the sea, saying:
“I have neither labored nor given birth,
    I have neither reared young men
    nor brought up young women.”
⁵When the report comes to Egypt,
    they will be in anguish^[b] over the report about Tyre.
⁶^(X)Cross over to Tarshish;
    wail, O inhabitants of the coast!
⁷Is this your exultant city
    ^(Y)whose origin is from days of old,
whose feet carried her
    to settle far away?
⁸Who has purposed this
    against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes,
    whose traders were the honored of the earth?
⁹The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
    ^(Z)to defile the pompous pride of all glory,^[c]
    to dishonor all the honored of the earth.
¹⁰Cross over your land like the Nile,
    O daughter of Tarshish;
    there is no restraint anymore.
¹¹^(AA)He has stretched out his hand over the sea;
    he has shaken the kingdoms;
the Lord has given command concerning Canaan
    to destroy its strongholds.
¹²And he said:
“You will no more exult,
    O oppressed virgin daughter of ^(AB)Sidon;
arise, ^(AC)cross over to ^(AD)Cyprus,
    even there you will have no rest.”

¹³Behold the land of ^(AE)the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not;^[d] Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected ^(AF)their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.

¹⁴^(AG)Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for your stronghold is laid waste.

¹⁵In that day Tyre will be forgotten for ^(AH)seventy years, like the days^[e] of one king. At the end of ^(AI)seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

¹⁶“Take a harp;
    go about the city,
    O forgotten prostitute!
Make sweet melody;
    sing many songs,
    that you may be remembered.”

¹⁷At the end of ^(AJ)seventy years, the Lord will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and ^(AK)will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. ¹⁸Her merchandise and her wages will be holy to the Lord. It will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the Lord.