The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Trade” it comes from the Hebrew Word “sachar” which means “trade, merchandise.”
Isaiah pronounces judgment against the wealthy, proud merchant city of Tyre. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Isaiah 23.
Isaiah delivers the burden of Tyre, urging the ships of Tarshish to howl, since it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in, from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them, describing how the inhabitants of the isle are struck silent, whom the merchants of Zidon, who pass over the sea, have replenished, describing Tyre’s “trade,” “sachar” in Hebrew, extending across the harvest of the river Sihor.
Isaiah asks who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth, describing how the Lord of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth, urging the daughter of Tarshish to pass over as a river, describing how the Lord has stretched out His hand over the sea, He shook the kingdoms, He has given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy its strongholds.
Isaiah describes how Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king, and after the end of seventy years, Tyre shall sing as a harlot, taking a harp, going about the city, making sweet melody, singing many songs, that she may be remembered, describing how after seventy years the Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth, closing with a remarkable promise that her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord, not treasured nor laid up, since her merchandise shall be for those who dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
Isaiah’s judgment against Tyre’s proud wealth and trade demonstrates that economic prosperity and commercial success, however impressive, never place a nation beyond genuine accountability to God’s own moral standards. This chapter’s surprising conclusion, that Tyre’s eventual restored commerce would become holiness to the Lord, suggests that even worldly wealth and trade can ultimately be redeemed and redirected toward genuinely godly purposes.
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