Isaiah 23:2-4

Easy-to-Read Version

² You people living near the sea, mourn in silence.
    The merchants of Sidon sent traders across the sea
    and filled the city with riches.
³ They traveled the seas looking for grain.
    The men from Tyre bought grain that grows near the Nile River
    and sold it to other nations.

⁴ Sidon, you should be very sad,
    because now the Sea and the Fort of the Sea^[a] say,
“I have no children.
    I have never felt the pain of birth;
I have never given birth to children.
    I have never raised young men and women.”