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Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You [a]merchants of Sidon;
[b]Your messengers crossed the sea

And they were on great waters.
The grain of the [c]Shihor, the harvest of the Nile River, was Tyre’s revenue;
And she was the market of nations.

Be ashamed, O Sidon [mother-city of Tyre, now like a widow bereaved of her children];
For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,
“I have neither labored nor given birth [to children];
I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:2 So some versions; MT reads merchant.
  2. Isaiah 23:2 The DSS so read. MT reads Who crossed the sea, they replenished you.
  3. Isaiah 23:3 An Egyptian name meaning “the pond of Horus”; it is probably a branch of the Nile or an unspecified lake.

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