Isaiah 23:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Go over to Tarshish; give cries of sorrow, O men of the sea-land.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 23:12 : 12 And he said, There is no more joy for you, O crushed virgin daughter of Zidon: up! go over to Kittim; even there you will have no rest.
  • Isa 16:7 : 7 For this cause everyone in Moab will give cries of grief for Moab: crushed to the earth, they will be weeping for the men of Kir-hareseth.
  • Isa 21:15 : 15 For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.
  • Isa 23:1-2 : 1 The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them. 2 Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters;
  • Isa 23:10 : 10 Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.

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  • Isa 23:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.

    2Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters;

  • Isa 23:14-17
    4 verses
    82%

    14Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste.

    15And it will be in that day that Tyre will go out of mind for seventy years, that is, the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre as in the song of the loose woman.

    16Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men's minds.

    17And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

  • Isa 23:7-8
    2 verses
    81%

    7Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?

    8By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?

  • Ezek 27:25-33
    9 verses
    79%

    25Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas.

    26Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.

    27Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.

    28At the sound of the cry of your ships' guides, the boards of the ship will be shaking.

    29And all the boatmen, the seamen and those who are expert at guiding a ship through the sea, will come down from their ships and take their places on the land;

    30And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

    31And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow.

    32And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea?

    33When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods.

  • Isa 23:4-5
    2 verses
    78%

    4Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins.

    5When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre.

  • Ezek 26:15-18
    4 verses
    78%

    15This is what the Lord has said to Tyre: Will not the sea-lands be shaking at the sound of your fall, when the wounded give cries of pain, when men are put to the sword in you?

    16Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their high seats, and put away their robes and take off their clothing of needlework: they will put on the clothing of grief, they will take their seats on the earth, shaking with fear every minute and overcome with wonder at you.

    17And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say to you, What destruction has come on you, how are you cut off from the sea, the noted town, which was strong in the sea, she and her people, causing the fear of them to come on all the dry land!

    18Now the sea-lands will be shaking in the day of your fall; and all the ships on the sea will be overcome with fear at your going.

  • Isa 23:10-12
    3 verses
    78%

    10Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.

    11His hand is stretched out over the sea, the kingdoms are shaking: the Lord has given orders about Canaan, to make waste its strong places.

    12And he said, There is no more joy for you, O crushed virgin daughter of Zidon: up! go over to Kittim; even there you will have no rest.

  • Ezek 27:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;

    3And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of the sea, trading for the peoples with the great sea-lands, these are the words of the Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship completely beautiful.

  • Ezek 27:35-36
    2 verses
    74%

    35All the people of the sea-lands are overcome with wonder at you, and their kings are full of fear, their faces are troubled.

    36Those who do business among the peoples make sounds of surprise at you; you have become a thing of fear, you have come to an end for ever.

  • Zeph 1:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;

    11Because of the downfall of all the people of Canaan: all those who were weighted down with silver have been cut off.

  • Mic 1:11
    72%

    11Be uncovered and go away, you who are living in Shaphir: the one living in Zaanan has not come out of her town; Beth-ezel is taken away from its base, even from its resting-place.

  • Ezek 27:12
    72%

    12Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.

  • Isa 60:9
    71%

    9Vessels of the sea-lands are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, so that your sons may come from far, and their silver and gold with them, to the place of the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.

  • Jer 2:10
    71%

    10For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see; send to Kedar and give deep thought to it; and see if there has ever been such a thing.

  • Jer 25:22
    71%

    22And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the lands across the sea;

  • Zech 9:4
    70%

    4See, the Lord will take away her heritage, overturning her power in the sea; and she will be burned up with fire.

  • Ezek 26:3-5
    3 verses
    70%

    3For this cause the Lord has said, See, I am against you, O Tyre, and will send up a number of nations against you as the sea sends up its waves.

    4And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock

    5She will be a place for the stretching out of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have said it, says the Lord: and her goods will be given over to the nations.

  • Isa 2:16
    70%

    16And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats.

  • Isa 24:14
    70%

    14But those will be making sounds of joy; they will be crying loudly from the sea for the glory of the Lord.

  • Isa 13:22
    70%

    22And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.

  • Jer 22:20
    70%

    20Go up to Lebanon and give a cry; let your voice be loud in Bashan, crying out from Abarim; for all your lovers have come to destruction

  • Zeph 2:15
    70%

    15This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.

  • Zeph 2:5
    70%

    5Sorrow to the people living by the sea, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will send destruction on you till there is no one living in you.

  • Isa 21:1
    70%

    1The word about the waste land. As storm-winds in the South go rushing through, it comes from the waste land, from the land greatly to be feared.

  • Ps 48:7
    70%

    7By you the ships of Tarshish are broken as by an east wind.

  • Nah 3:7
    69%

    7And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?