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Be still, O inhabitants of the coast,
    O merchants of Sidon;
your messengers crossed over the sea[a]
    and were on the mighty waters;
your revenue was the grain of Shihor,
    the harvest of the Nile;
    you were the merchant of the nations.
Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken,
    the fortress of the sea, saying:
‘I have neither laboured nor given birth,
    I have neither reared young men
    nor brought up young women.’

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:2 Q Ms: MT crossing over the sea, they replenished you

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