Isaiah · Literal Standard Version
Isaiah 23 Literal Standard Version
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1 The Burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish, || For it has been destroyed, || Without house, without entrance, || From the land of Chittim it was revealed to them.
1 CARGA de Tiro. Aullad, naves de Tarsis, porque destruída es hasta no quedar casa, ni entrada: de la tierra de Chîttim les es revelado.
2 Be silent, you inhabitants of the island, || Trader of Sidon, passing the sea, they filled you.
2 Callad, moradores de la isla, mercader de Sidón, que pasando la mar te henchían.
3 And the seed of Sihor [is] in many waters, || Her increase [is] the harvest of the brook, || And she is a market of nations.
3 Su provisión era de las sementeras [que crecen] con las muchas aguas del Nilo, de la mies del río. Fué también feria de gentes.
4 Be ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea spoke, || The strength of the sea, saying, “I have not been pained, nor have I brought forth, || Nor have I nourished young men, [nor] brought up virgins.”
4 Avergüénzate, Sidón, porque la mar, la fortaleza de la mar habló, diciendo: Nunca estuve de parto, ni parí, ni crié mancebos, ni levanté vírgenes.
5 As they are pained [at] the report of Egypt, || So [at] the report of Tyre.
5 En llegando la fama á Egipto, tendrán dolor de las nuevas de Tiro.
6 Pass over to Tarshish, howl, you inhabitants of the island,
6 Pasaos á Tarsis; aullad, moradores de la isla.
7 Is this your exulting one? Her antiquity [is] from the days of old, || Her own feet carry her far off to sojourn.
7 ¿No era ésta vuestra [ciudad] alegre, su antigüedad de muchos días? Sus pies la llevarán á peregrinar lejos.
8 Who has counseled this against Tyre, || The crowning one, whose traders [are] princes, || Her merchants—the honored of earth?
8 ¿Quién decretó esto sobre Tiro la coronada, cuyos negociantes eran príncipes, cuyos mercaderes eran los nobles de la tierra?
9 YHWH of Hosts has counseled it, || To defile the excellence of all beauty, || To make light all the honored of earth.
9 Jehová de los ejércitos lo decretó, para envilecer la soberbia de toda gloria; y para abatir todos los ilustres de la tierra.
10 Pass through your land as a brook, || Daughter of Tarshish, || There is no longer a girdle.
10 Pasa cual río de tu tierra, oh hija de Tarsis; porque no tendrás ya más fortaleza.
11 He has stretched out His hand over the sea, || He has caused kingdoms to tremble, || YHWH has charged concerning the merchant one, || To destroy her strong places.
11 Extendió su mano sobre la mar, hizo temblar los reinos: Jehová mandó sobre Canaán que sus fuerzas sean debilitadas.
12 And He says, “You do not add to exult anymore, || O oppressed one, virgin daughter of Sidon, || To Chittim arise, pass over, || Even there—there is no rest for you.”
12 Y dijo: No te alegrarás más, oh tú, oprimida virgen hija de Sidón. Levántate para pasar á Chîttim; y aun allí no tendrás reposo.
13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this people was not, || Asshur founded it for desert-dwellers, || They raised its watchtowers, || They lifted up her palaces—He has appointed her for a ruin!
13 Mira la tierra de los Caldeos; este pueblo no era; Assur la fundó para los que habitaban en el desierto: levantaron sus fortalezas, edificaron sus palacios; él la convirtió en ruinas.
14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, || For your strength has been destroyed.
14 Aullad, naves de Tarsis; porque destruída es vuestra fortaleza.
15 And it has come to pass in that day, || That Tyre is forgotten seventy years, || According to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years there is to Tyre as the song of the harlot.
15 Y acontecerá en aquel día, que Tiro será puesta en olvido por setenta años, como días de un rey. Después de los setenta años, cantará Tiro canción como de ramera.
16 Take a harp, go around the city, O forgotten harlot, play well, || Multiply song that you may be remembered.
16 Toma arpa, y rodea la ciudad, oh ramera olvidada: haz buena melodía, reitera la canción, porque tornes en memoria.
17 And it has come to pass, || At the end of seventy years YHWH inspects Tyre, || And she has returned to her wage, || And she committed fornication || With all kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground.
17 Y acontecerá, que al fin de los setenta años visitará Jehová á Tiro: y tornaráse á su ganancia, y otra vez fornicará con todos los reinos de la tierra sobre la haz de la tierra.
18 And her merchandise and her wage have been holy to YHWH, || Not treasured up nor stored, || For her merchandise is to those sitting before YHWH, || To eat to satiety, and for a lasting covering!
18 Mas su negociación y su ganancia será consagrada á Jehová: no se guardará ni se atesorará, porque su negociación será para los que estuvieren delante de Jehová, para que coman hasta hartarse, y vistan honradamente.
Cross references (18)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Joel 3:4–8; Genesis 10:4; Amos 1:9–10; Jeremiah 25:22; Isaiah 2:16
- 2 Isaiah 47:5; Ezekiel 27:8–36; Ezekiel 28:2; Psalm 46:10; Isaiah 41:1
- 3 1 Chronicles 13:5; Jeremiah 2:18; Ezekiel 27:3–23; Isaiah 23:8; Joel 3:5
- 4 Revelation 18:23; Genesis 10:15; Jeremiah 47:3–4; Ezekiel 26:3–6; Hosea 9:11–14
- 5 Joshua 2:9–11; Exodus 15:14–16; Ezekiel 28:19; Ezekiel 27:29–36; Ezekiel 26:15–21
- 6 Isaiah 23:12; Isaiah 21:15; Isaiah 16:7; Isaiah 23:10; Isaiah 23:1–2
- 7 Isaiah 22:2; Joshua 19:29; Ecclesiastes 10:7; Isaiah 47:1–2; Isaiah 32:13
- 8 Ezekiel 28:2–6; Isaiah 10:8; Jeremiah 50:44–45; Deuteronomy 29:24–28; Isaiah 36:9
- 9 James 4:6; Isaiah 13:11; Job 40:11–12; Isaiah 2:11; Daniel 4:37
- 10 1 Samuel 28:20; Isaiah 23:14; Job 12:21; Psalm 18:32; Romans 5:6
- 11 Zechariah 9:3–4; Exodus 14:21; Mark 11:17; Hosea 12:7–8; Exodus 15:8–10
- 12 Revelation 18:22; Ezekiel 26:13–14; Isaiah 23:1–2; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 23:7
- 13 Habakkuk 1:6; Isaiah 13:19; Daniel 4:30; 2 Kings 20:12; Ezekiel 29:18
- 14 Isaiah 23:1; Ezekiel 27:25–30; Isaiah 2:16; Isaiah 23:6; Revelation 18:11–19
- 15 Jeremiah 25:22; Hosea 2:15; Jeremiah 27:3–7; Daniel 8:21; Jeremiah 29:10
- 16 Proverbs 7:10–12; Jeremiah 30:14
- 17 Nahum 3:4; Ezekiel 27:6–36; Revelation 19:2; Ezekiel 16:26; Jeremiah 29:10
- 18 Psalm 72:10; Deuteronomy 26:12–14; Philippians 4:17–18; Galatians 6:6; Deuteronomy 12:18–19
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
For in the Prophet Isaiah it is thus found: "Howl, ye ships of Carthage." But in Ezekiel by some interpreters the word is translated Carthage, by some Tarshish: and from this diversity it can be understood that the same which was called Carthage, is called Tharsus.
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