Chronological Plan

¹The pronouncement concerning Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish, For Tyre is destroyed, without house or harbor; It is reported to them from the land of Cyprus.

²Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland, You merchants of Sidon; Your messengers crossed the sea

³And were on many waters. The grain of the Nile, the harvest of the River was her revenue; And she was the market of nations.

⁴Be ashamed, Sidon, For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have neither been in labor nor given birth, I have neither brought up young men nor raised virgins.”

⁵When the report reaches Egypt, They will be in anguish over the report of Tyre.

⁶Pass over to Tarshish; Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland.

⁷Is this your jubilant city, Whose origin is from antiquity, Whose feet used to bring her to colonize distant places?

⁸Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?

⁹The LORD of armies has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty, To despise all the honored of the earth.

¹⁰Overflow your land like the Nile, you daughter of Tarshish, There is no more restraint.

¹¹He has stretched His hand out over the sea, He has made the kingdoms tremble; The LORD has given a command concerning Canaan to demolish its strongholds.

¹²He has said, “You shall not be jubilant anymore, you crushed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.”

¹³Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people that did not exist; Assyria allocated it for desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.

¹⁴Wail, you ships of Tarshish, For your stronghold is destroyed.

¹⁵Now on that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

¹⁶Take your harp, wander around the city, You forgotten prostitute; Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs, That you may be remembered.

¹⁷It will come about at the end of seventy years that the LORD will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her prostitute’s wages and commit prostitution with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

¹⁸Her profit and her prostitute’s wages will be sacred to the LORD; it will not be stored up or hoarded, but her profit will become sufficient food and magnificent attire for those who dwell in the presence of the LORD.

¹Behold, the LORD lays the earth waste, devastates it, twists its surface, and scatters its inhabitants.

²And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the female servant like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.

³The earth will be completely laid waste and completely plundered, for the LORD has spoken this word.

⁴The earth dries up and crumbles away, the mainland dries out and crumbles away, the exalted of the people of the earth dwindle.

⁵The earth is also defiled by its inhabitants, for they violated laws, altered statutes, and broke the everlasting covenant.

⁶Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live on it suffer for their guilt. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth decrease in number, and few people are left.

⁷The new wine mourns, The vine decays, All the joyful-hearted sigh.

⁸The joy of tambourines ceases, The noise of revelers stops, The joy of the harp ceases.

⁹They do not drink wine with song; Intoxicating drink is bitter to those who drink it.

¹⁰The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that no one may enter.

¹¹There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine; All joy turns to gloom. The joy of the earth is banished.

¹²Desolation is left in the city And the gate is battered to ruins.

¹³For so it will be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, As the shaking of an olive tree, As the gleanings when the grape harvest is over.

¹⁴They raise their voices, they shout for joy; They cry out from the west concerning the majesty of the LORD.

¹⁵Therefore glorify the LORD in the east, The name of the LORD, the God of Israel, In the coastlands of the sea.

¹⁶From the ends of the earth we hear songs: “Glory to the Righteous One,” But I say, “I am finished! I am finished! Woe to me! The treacherous deal treacherously, And the treacherous deal very treacherously.”

¹⁷Terror and pit and snare Confront you, you inhabitant of the earth.

¹⁸Then it will be that the one who flees the sound of terror will fall into the pit, And the one who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare; For the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth shake.

¹⁹The earth is broken apart, The earth is split through, The earth is shaken violently.

²⁰The earth trembles like a heavy drinker And sways like a hut, For its wrongdoing is heavy upon it, And it will fall, never to rise again.

²¹So it will happen on that day, That the LORD will punish the rebellious angels of heaven on high, And the kings of the earth on earth.

²²They will be gathered together Like prisoners in the dungeon, And will be confined in prison; And after many days they will be punished.

²³Then the moon will be ashamed and the sun be put to shame, For the LORD of armies will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, And His glory will be before His elders.

¹LORD, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name; For You have worked wonders, Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.

²For You have turned a city into a heap, A fortified city into a ruin; A palace of strangers is no longer a city, It will never be rebuilt.

³Therefore a strong people will glorify You; Cities of ruthless nations will revere You.

⁴For You have been a stronghold for the helpless, A stronghold for the poor in his distress, A refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; For the breath of the ruthless Is like a rain storm against a wall.

⁵Like heat in a dry land, You subdue the uproar of foreigners; Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is silenced.

⁶Now the LORD of armies will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain; A banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow, And refined, aged wine.

⁷And on this mountain He will destroy the covering which is over all peoples, The veil which is stretched over all nations.

⁸He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces, And He will remove the disgrace of His people from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.

⁹And it will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited; Let’s rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”

¹⁰For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, And Moab will be trampled down in his place As straw is trampled down in the water of a manure pile.

¹¹And he will spread out his hands in the middle of it As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim, But the Lord will lay low his pride together with the trickery of his hands.

¹²The unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down, Lay low, and throw to the ground, to the dust.

¹On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; He sets up walls and ramparts for security.

²Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The one that remains faithful.

³The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You.

⁴Trust in the LORD forever, For in GOD the LORD, we have an everlasting Rock.

⁵For He has brought low those who dwell on high, the unassailable city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He casts it to the dust.

⁶The foot will trample it, The feet of the poor, the steps of the helpless.”

⁷The way of the righteous is smooth; O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level.

⁸Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, LORD, We have waited for You eagerly; Your name, and remembering You, is the desire of our souls.

⁹At night my soul longs for You, Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; For when the earth experiences Your judgments, The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

¹⁰Though the wicked person is shown compassion, He does not learn righteousness; He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness, And does not perceive the majesty of the LORD.

¹¹LORD, Your hand is lifted up, yet they do not see it. They see Your zeal for the people and are put to shame; Indeed, fire will devour Your enemies.

¹²LORD, You will establish peace for us, Since You have also performed for us all our works.

¹³LORD, our God, other masters besides You have ruled us; But through You alone we confess Your name.

¹⁴The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have eliminated all remembrance of them.

¹⁵You have increased the nation, LORD, You have increased the nation, You are glorified; You have extended all the borders of the land.

¹⁶LORD, they sought You in distress; They could only whisper a prayer, Your discipline was upon them.

¹⁷As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth, She writhes and cries out in her labor pains; This is how we were before You, LORD.

¹⁸We were pregnant, we writhed in labor, We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind. We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth, Nor were inhabitants of the world born.

¹⁹Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.

²⁰Come, my people, enter your rooms And close your doors behind you; Hide for a little while Until indignation runs its course.

²¹For behold, the LORD is about to come out from His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their wrongdoing; And the earth will reveal her bloodshed And will no longer cover her slain.

¹On that day the LORD will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and mighty sword, Even Leviathan the twisted serpent; And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

²On that day, “A vineyard of beauty, sing of it!

³I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it every moment. So that no one will damage it, I guard it night and day.

⁴I have no wrath. Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle, Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely.

⁵Or let him rely on My protection, Let him make peace with Me, Let him make peace with Me.”

⁶In the days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will blossom and sprout, And they will fill the whole world with fruit.

⁷Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them? Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?

⁸You contended with them by banishing them, by driving them away. With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.

⁹Therefore through this Jacob’s wrongdoing will be forgiven; And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones; When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

¹⁰For the fortified city is isolated, A homestead deserted and abandoned like the desert; There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and feed on its branches.

¹¹When its limbs are dry, they are broken off; Women come and make a fire with them, For they are not a people of discernment, Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them. And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

¹²On that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates River to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, you sons of Israel.

¹³It will come about also on that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.