Isaiah 23 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

The Fall of Tyre

Isa 23:1The Word concerning Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Carthage; for she has perished, and men no longer arrive from the land of the Citians: she is led captive.

Isa 23:2

Isa 23:2To whom are the dwellers in the island become like, the merchants of Phœnice, passing over the sea

Isa 23:3

Isa 23:3in great waters, a generation of merchants? as when the harvest is gathered in, so are these traders with the nations.

Isa 23:4

Isa 23:4Be ashamed, O Sidon: the sea has said, yea, the strength of the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins.

Isa 23:5

Isa 23:5Moreover when it shall be heard in Egypt, sorrow shall seize them for Tyre.

Isa 23:6

Isa 23:6Depart ye to Carthage; howl, ye that dwell in this island.

Isa 23:7

Isa 23:7Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up?

Isa 23:8

Isa 23:8Who has devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.

Isa 23:9

Isa 23:9The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.

Isa 23:10

Isa 23:10Till thy land; for ships no more come out of Carthage.

Isa 23:11

Isa 23:11And thy hand prevails no more by sea, which [fn]troubled kings: the Lord of hosts has given a command concerning Chanaan, to destroy the strength thereof.

Isa 23:12

Isa 23:12And men shall say, Ye shall no longer at all continue to insult and injure the daughter of Sidon: and if thou depart to the Citians, neither there shalt thou have rest.

Isa 23:13

Isa 23:13And if thou depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.

Isa 23:14

Isa 23:14Howl, ye ships of Carthage: for your strong hold is destroyed.

Isa 23:15

Isa 23:15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.

Isa 23:16

Isa 23:16Take a harp, go about, O city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

Isa 23:17

Isa 23:17And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, that God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

Isa 23:18

Isa 23:18And her trade and her gain shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be gathered for them, but for those that dwell before the Lord, even all her trade, to eat and drink and be filled, and for a covenant and a memorial before the Lord.

BES Footnotes

(23:11)

See chap 5:25; 14:16.

Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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Isaiah 23 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

The Fall of Tyre

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