rsv Isaiah:23:1-7
rsv@Isaiah:23:1 @ The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or haven! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.
rsv@Isaiah:23:2 @ Be still, O inhabitants of the coast, O merchants of Sidon; your messengers passed over the sea
rsv@Isaiah:23:3 @ and were on many waters; your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations.
rsv@Isaiah:23:4 @ Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying: "I have neither travailed nor given birth, I have neither reared young men nor brought up virgins."
rsv@Isaiah:23:5 @ When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish over the report about Tyre.
rsv@Isaiah:23:6 @ Pass over to Tarshish, wail, O inhabitants of the coast!
rsv@Isaiah:23:7 @ Is this your exultant city whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle afar?