A Prophecy Against Tyre
1A prophecy against Tyre:
Wail, you ships of Tarshish!
For Tyre is destroyed
and left without house or harbor.
From the land of Cyprus
word has come to them.
2Be silent, you people of the island
and you merchants of Sidon,
whom the seafarers have enriched.
3On the great waters
came the grain of the Shihor;
the harvest of the Nile23:2,3 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls Sidon, / who cross over the sea; / your envoys 3 are on the great waters. / The grain of the Shihor, / the harvest of the Nile, was the revenue of Tyre,
and she became the marketplace of the nations.
4Be ashamed, Sidon, and you fortress of the sea,
for the sea has spoken:
“I have neither been in labor nor given birth;
I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”
5When word comes to Egypt,
they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.
6Cross over to Tarshish;
wail, you people of the island.
7Is this your city of revelry,
the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
to settle in far-off lands?
8Who planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants are princes,
whose traders are renowned in the earth?
9The Lord Almighty planned it,
to bring down her pride in all her splendor
and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.
10Till23:10 Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text Go through your land as they do along the Nile,
Daughter Tarshish,
for you no longer have a harbor.
11The Lord has stretched out his hand over the sea
and made its kingdoms tremble.
He has given an order concerning Phoenicia
that her fortresses be destroyed.
12He said, “No more of your reveling,
Virgin Daughter Sidon, now crushed!
“Up, cross over to Cyprus;
even there you will find no rest.”
13Look at the land of the Babylonians,23:13 Or Chaldeans
this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians have made it
a place for desert creatures;
they raised up their siege towers,
they stripped its fortresses bare
and turned it into a ruin.
14Wail, you ships of Tarshish;
your fortress is destroyed!
15At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:
16“Take up a harp, walk through the city,
you forgotten prostitute;
play the harp well, sing many a song,
so that you will be remembered.”
17At the end of seventy years, the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. 18Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord, for abundant food and fine clothes.
Za Chilango cha Turo
1Uthenga wonena za Turo:
Lirani mofuwula, inu oyendetsa sitima za pa madzi za ku Tarisisi:
pakuti mzinda wa Turo wawonongedwa
ndipo mulibe nyumba kapena dooko.
Zimenezi anazimva
pochokera ku Kitimu.
2Khalani chete inu anthu okhala mʼmbali mwa nyanja,
inu amalonda a ku Sidoni,
iwe amene unalemera ndi anthu oyenda pa nyanja.
3Pa nyanja zazikulu
panabwera tirigu wa ku Sihori;
zokolola za ku Nailo, ndipo munachita malonda
ndi anthu a mitundu ina.
4Chita manyazi, iwe Sidimu
pakuti nyanja yayankhula, linga la ku nyanja (Turo) layankhula kuti,
“Sindinamvepo zowawa za kubereka kapena kuberekapo mwana;
sindinalerepo ana aamuna kapena kulera ana aakazi.”
5Mawuwa akadzamveka ku Igupto,
iwo adzachita mantha akadzamva kuti Turo wawonongeka.
6Wolokerani ku Tarisisi,
lirani mofuwula, inu anthu okhala mʼmbali mwa nyanja.
7Kodi uwu si mzinda wachisangalalo uja,
mzinda wakalekale,
umene anthu ake ankapita
kukakhala ku mayiko akutali?
8Kodi ndani anakonza zimenezi kuti zigwere Turo, mzinda umene unakhazikitsa mizinda ina,
mzinda umene amalonda ake ndi akalonga
ndi otchuka
pa dziko lapansi?
9Yehova Wamphamvuzonse anakonza zimenezi
kuti athetse kunyada kwawo
ndi kutsitsa anthu otchuka a pa dziko lapansi.
10Mubalalike mʼdziko mwanu ngati mtsinje wa Nailo
inu anthu a ku Tarisisi,
pakuti mulibenso chokutetezani.
11Yehova watambasula dzanja lake kuloza ku nyanja
ndipo wagwedeza maufumu ake.
Iye walamula kuti Kanaani
agwetse malinga ake.
12Iye anati, “Simudzakondwanso konse,
inu anthu opanikizidwa a ku Sidoni, tsopano wamphwanyidwa!
“Ngakhale muwolokere ku Kitimu,
kumeneko simukapezako mpumulo.”
13Onani dziko la Ababuloni,
anthu amenewa tsopano atheratu!
Asiriya asandutsa Turo kukhala
malo a zirombo za ku chipululu;
anamanga nsanja zawo za nkhondo,
anagumula malinga ake
ndipo anawasandutsa bwinja.
14Lirani mofuwula, inu anthu oyendetsa sitima za pa madzi za ku Tarisisi;
chifukwa malinga ako agwetsedwa!
15Pa nthawi imeneyo Turo adzayiwalika pa zaka 70, amene ndi masiku a moyo wa mfumu. Koma potsiriza pa zaka 70 zimenezi, Turo adzakhala ngati mkazi wachiwerewere woyimbidwa mu nyimbo:
16“Tenga zeze wako uzungulire mzinda,
iwe mkazi wachiwerewere woyiwalika;
imba zeze mokometsera, imba nyimbo zambiri,
kuti anthu akukumbukire.”
17Pakutha pa zaka 70, Yehova adzachitapo kanthu pa Turo. Iye adzabwerera ku ntchito yake yakale monga mkazi wachiwerewere ndipo adzachita zachiwerewere ndi maufumu onse a dziko lapansi. 18Koma phindu lake ndi malipiro ake adzazipereka kwa Yehova; sadzazikundika kapena kuzisunga. Phindu lake lidzapita kwa mtumiki wa Yehova kuti agule zakudya zambiri ndi zovala zokongola.
