Isaiah 23:14

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Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is destroyed.

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  • Isa 23:1 : 1 This is a message concerning Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed. The news has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
  • Isa 23:6 : 6 Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coastland.
  • Ezek 27:25-30 : 25 The ships of Tarshish carried your goods as your trading fleet. You were filled with merchandise and became glorious in the heart of the seas. 26 Your rowers brought you into deep waters, but the east wind broke you apart in the heart of the seas. 27 Your wealth, merchandise, wares, sailors, pilots, ship-repairers, merchants, and all your warriors, along with the people in your midst, will sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your ruin. 28 At the sound of the cries of your pilots, the surrounding lands will tremble. 29 All who handle the oars, the sailors, and all the seafaring captains will disembark from their ships and stand on the shore. 30 They will mourn over you with loud cries, bitterly wailing, throwing dust on their heads and rolling in ashes.
  • Rev 18:11-19 : 11 The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her, because no one buys their cargo anymore— 12 cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, crimson, all kinds of scented wood, every article of ivory, every article made of the most costly wood, and of bronze, iron, and marble, 13 and cinnamon, spice, incense, ointment, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, chariots, and human bodies and souls. 14 The fruit your soul longed for has departed from you. All your luxurious and splendid things are lost to you, never to be found again. 15 The merchants who became rich from her will stand far off, out of fear for her torment, weeping and mourning, 16 saying, 'Woe, woe to the great city, dressed in fine linen, purple, and crimson, adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls!' 17 For in one hour such great wealth has been destroyed!' Every ship captain, all who travel by ship, sailors, and those who earn their living from the sea stood far off, 18 And they cried out as they watched the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What city is like the great city?' 19 And they threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe to the great city, in which all who owned ships at sea became rich from her wealth! For in one hour she has been laid waste.'
  • Isa 2:16 : 16 It will come against all the ships of Tarshish and against all the beautiful vessels.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 23:1-2
    2 verses
    87%

    1 This is a message concerning Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed. The news has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

    2 Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose messengers cross over the sea.

  • Isa 23:4-8
    5 verses
    82%

    4 Be ashamed, Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, 'I have neither labored nor given birth; I have not raised young men or brought up virgins.'

    5 When the news reaches Egypt, they will writhe in anguish at the report about Tyre.

    6 Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coastland.

    7 Is this your jubilant city, whose origins are from days long ago, whose feet carried her to settle far away?

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

  • Isa 23:10-13
    4 verses
    81%

    10 Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbor restraining you.

    11 He has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. The LORD has commanded for Canaan to be destroyed, and her strongholds laid waste.

    12 He has said, 'You will no longer rejoice, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Rise, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.'

    13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people that was not; Assyria established it as a refuge for wild creatures. They set up its siege towers, stripped its palaces bare, and made it a ruin.

  • Isa 23:15-17
    3 verses
    80%

    15 On that day, Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s lifetime. At the end of seventy years, Tyre will be like the song of a prostitute.

    16 Take up a harp, go about the city, you forgotten prostitute. Play skillfully, sing many songs, so that you may be remembered.

    17 At the end of seventy years, the LORD will attend to Tyre. She will return to her hire and will prostitute herself to all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

  • Ezek 26:14-18
    5 verses
    79%

    14 'I will make you a bare rock, a place for spreading fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.'

    15 This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: 'Won't the coastlands tremble at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan and slaughter takes place within you?'

    16 Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones. They will remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. Clothed in trembling, they will sit on the ground, shuddering continually, appalled at you.

    17 They will take up a lament over you and say to you: 'How you have perished, you who were inhabited by people of the seas, the renowned city, strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread terror among all who lived there.'

    18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.

  • Ezek 27:32-36
    5 verses
    78%

    32 And they will chant a dirge for you, lamenting, 'Who was ever like Tyre, silenced and destroyed in the midst of the sea?'

    33 When your merchandise went out to the seas, you satisfied many peoples. With your abundant wealth and your goods, you enriched the kings of the earth.

    34 Now that you are broken in the seas, in the depths of the waters, your goods and all your company have fallen in your midst.

    35 All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled at you; their kings shudder with horror, their faces troubled.

    36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have become a source of terror and will cease to exist forever.

  • Ezek 27:25-30
    6 verses
    78%

    25 The ships of Tarshish carried your goods as your trading fleet. You were filled with merchandise and became glorious in the heart of the seas.

    26 Your rowers brought you into deep waters, but the east wind broke you apart in the heart of the seas.

    27 Your wealth, merchandise, wares, sailors, pilots, ship-repairers, merchants, and all your warriors, along with the people in your midst, will sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your ruin.

    28 At the sound of the cries of your pilots, the surrounding lands will tremble.

    29 All who handle the oars, the sailors, and all the seafaring captains will disembark from their ships and stand on the shore.

    30 They will mourn over you with loud cries, bitterly wailing, throwing dust on their heads and rolling in ashes.

  • Ps 48:7
    75%

    7 Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

  • Ezek 26:2-5
    4 verses
    74%

    2 Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha! The gateway of the peoples is broken; it has turned to me. I will be filled now that she lies in ruins.'

    3 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea bringing up its waves.'

    4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape away her soil and leave her as bare rock.

    5 She will become a drying place for fishing nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations.

  • Ezek 26:12
    74%

    12 'They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. They will throw your stones, timber, and rubble into the sea.'

  • Isa 2:16
    73%

    16 It will come against all the ships of Tarshish and against all the beautiful vessels.

  • Isa 33:23
    73%

    23 Your ropes hang loose; they cannot hold the base of the mast firm, nor spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will seize the plunder.

  • Ezek 27:12
    72%

    12 Tarshish traded with you because of your great wealth of goods, exchanging silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.

  • Zeph 1:11
    72%

    11 Wail, you residents of the Mortar, for all the merchants are silenced; all who handle silver are cut off.

  • Ezek 27:9
    72%

    9 The elders of Gebal and its skilled workers repaired your leaks; all the ships of the sea and their sailors came to deal in your trade.

  • Zech 9:4
    72%

    4 But the Lord will dispossess her and strike her power in the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.

  • Num 24:24
    72%

    24 Ships will come from the shores of Kittim; they will afflict Asshur and Eber, but they too will come to destruction.

  • Ezek 27:2
    72%

    2 Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,

  • Jer 25:34
    71%

    34 Weep and wail, you shepherds, cry out! Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock, for your time to be slaughtered has come. You will fall like a precious vessel.

  • Isa 3:26
    71%

    26 The city gates will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

  • Jer 50:23
    71%

    23 How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut down and broken! Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations.

  • Zech 11:2
    71%

    2 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the majestic trees are destroyed! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has come down!

  • Hos 10:14
    71%

    14 the roar of battle will rise against your people, and all your fortresses will be devastated—as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces with their children.

  • Isa 60:9
    70%

    9 Surely the coastlands will wait for me; the ships of Tarshish will come first, bringing your sons from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you.