Isaiah 23:2-4

Contemporary English Version

² Mourn in silence,
you shop owners of Sidon,^[a]
    you people on the coast.
Your sailors crossed oceans,
    making your city rich.
³ Your merchants sailed the seas,
making you wealthy by trading
    with nation after nation.
They brought back grain
    that grew along the Nile.^[b]
4 Sidon, you are a mighty fortress
    built along the sea.
But you will be disgraced
like a married woman
    who never had children.^[c]