Isaiah 23:3

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On the great waters came the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, its revenue; it was the marketplace of nations.

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  • 1 Chr 13:5 : 5 David assembled all Israel, from the Shihor in Egypt to Lebo-Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
  • Jer 2:18 : 18 Now why go to Egypt to drink water from the Nile? And why go to Assyria to drink water from the river?
  • Ezek 27:3-9 : 3 and say to Tyre, situated at the gateways of the sea, a merchant of peoples to many coastlands: 'Thus says the Lord God: Tyre, you have declared, "I am perfect in beauty."' 4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty. 5 They made all your planks from cypress trees from Senir; they took cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. 6 They crafted your oars from oaks of Bashan; they made your deck of inlaid ivory from boxwood from the coastlands of Cyprus. 7 Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your banner; blue and purple fabric from the coastlands of Elishah was your covering. 8 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were aboard; they served as your sailors. 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. 10 Men of Persia, Lydia, and Put served as warriors in your army; they hung their shields and helmets in you, enhancing your splendor. 11 The men of Arvad and your army stood on your walls all around, and valiant men were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they brought your beauty to perfection. 12 Tarshish traded with you because of your great wealth of goods, exchanging silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares. 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human lives and bronze articles for your merchandise. 14 From Beth Togarmah, they traded horses, war horses, and mules for your goods. 15 The men of Dedan were your merchants; many coastlands were your clients; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony wood as your payments. 16 Aram traded with you because of the vast amount of your products; they exchanged turquoise, purple fabric, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your wares. 17 Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants. They traded wheat from Minnith, sweet confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise. 18 Damascus traded with you because of the abundance of your goods and the multitude of your wealth, offering wine from Helbon and fine white wool. 19 Dan and Javan from Uzal exchanged your goods for wrought iron, cassia, and aromatic cane, contributing to your merchandise. 20 The men of Dedan were your merchants, dealing in luxurious garments for chariot riders. 21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were merchants at your service, trading lambs, rams, and goats with you. 22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you, offering the finest spices, precious stones, and gold in exchange for your wares. 23 Haran, Canneh, and Eden, as well as the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, and Chilmad, traded with you.
  • Ezek 27:33 : 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.
  • Ezek 28:4 : 4 By your wisdom and understanding, you have made wealth for yourself, and you have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries.
  • Joel 3:5 : 5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried my precious treasures into your temples.
  • Rev 18:11-13 : 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.
  • Isa 19:7 : 7 The meadows by the Nile, along the banks of the river, and all sown land by the Nile will wither, be blown away, and be no more.
  • Isa 23:8 : 8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were honored in the earth?
  • Isa 32:20 : 20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, letting the oxen and the donkey roam freely.
  • Deut 11:10 : 10 For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet like a vegetable garden.

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  • Isa 23:4-5
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    4Be 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.'

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

  • Isa 23:1-2
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    1This 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.

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

  • Ezek 27:32-34
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    32And they will chant a dirge for you, lamenting, 'Who was ever like Tyre, silenced and destroyed in the midst of the sea?'

    33When 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.

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

  • Isa 23:10-12
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    10Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbor restraining you.

    11He 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.

    12He 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.'

  • Ezek 27:22-27
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    22The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you, offering the finest spices, precious stones, and gold in exchange for your wares.

    23Haran, Canneh, and Eden, as well as the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, and Chilmad, traded with you.

    24They sold you luxurious items, embroidered blue and multicolored garments, treasures of fine clothes, bound with strong cords, packed securely for your market.

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

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

    27Your 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.

  • Isa 23:7-8
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    7Is this your jubilant city, whose origins are from days long ago, whose feet carried her to settle far away?

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

  • Isa 18:2
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    2A land that sends envoys over the sea in papyrus vessels, gliding on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, a people feared far and wide, a mighty and conquering nation divided by rivers.

  • Isa 23:16-18
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    16Take up a harp, go about the city, you forgotten prostitute. Play skillfully, sing many songs, so that you may be remembered.

    17At 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.

    18Yet her merchandise and her hire will be consecrated to the LORD; it will not be stored or hoarded, but it will provide for those who live in the presence of the LORD—for abundant food and fine clothing.

  • Isa 60:5
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    5Then you will see and be radiant, your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the wealth of the sea will be brought to you, and the riches of the nations will come to you.

  • Prov 31:14
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    14She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.

  • Zech 9:2-4
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    2Hamath, also, will border it; Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

    3Tyre has built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt in the streets.

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

  • Jer 25:22
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    22All the kings of Tyre and all the kings of Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea.

  • Nah 3:4
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    4All this because of the abundant prostitution of a well-favored harlot, a skilled sorceress, who ensnares nations with her lust and peoples with her witchcraft.

  • Nah 3:9-10
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    9Cush and Egypt were her strength, and there was no limit; Put and Libya were among her allies.

    10Yet she went into exile, carried away into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at every street corner. Lots were cast for her nobles, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • Ezek 27:12
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    12Tarshish traded with you because of your great wealth of goods, exchanging silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.

  • Ezek 27:16-17
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    16Aram traded with you because of the vast amount of your products; they exchanged turquoise, purple fabric, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your wares.

    17Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants. They traded wheat from Minnith, sweet confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise.

  • Isa 19:5
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    5The waters will dry up from the sea, and the river will be parched and dry.

  • Ezek 26:17
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    17They 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.'

  • Ezek 27:7
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    7Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your banner; blue and purple fabric from the coastlands of Elishah was your covering.

  • Lam 1:1
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    1How lonely sits the city, once so full of people! She has become like a widow, great among the nations, a princess among the provinces, now a slave.

  • Joel 3:4
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    4Now, what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are repaying me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your own heads.

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    10From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshippers, the daughter of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering.

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    42The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered by its roaring waves.

  • Ps 80:11
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    11The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.

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    9The 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.

  • Isa 3:26
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    26The city gates will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

  • Ezek 27:4
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    4Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

  • Gen 49:13
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    13'Zebulun will live by the seashore and become a haven for ships; his border will extend toward Sidon.'

  • Ezek 26:5
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    5She 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.

  • Isa 16:8
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    8The fields of Heshbon languish, as does the vine of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have struck its choice vines, which reached as far as Jazer, wandered into the wilderness, and spread their shoots abroad, crossing the sea.

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    21But there the majestic LORD will be for us, a place of broad rivers and streams where no ships with oars will go, and no mighty vessel will pass.

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    13You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.