Isaiah 23:6

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

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  • Isa 23:12 : 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.'
  • Isa 16:7 : 7 Therefore, Moab will wail for Moab—everyone will wail. Mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, utterly stricken and grieving.
  • Isa 21:15 : 15 For they fled from swords, from drawn swords, from bent bows, and from the severity of battle.
  • Isa 23:1-2 : 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 23:10 : 10 Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbor restraining you.

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  • Isa 23:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    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.

  • Isa 23:14-17
    4 verses
    82%

    14Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is destroyed.

    15On 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.

    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.

  • Isa 23:7-8
    2 verses
    81%

    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?

  • Ezek 27:25-33
    9 verses
    79%

    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.

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

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

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

    31They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. In deep anguish and bitter mourning, they will weep for you.

    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.

  • Isa 23:4-5
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Ezek 26:15-18
    4 verses
    78%

    15This 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?'

    16Then 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.

    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.'

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

  • Isa 23:10-12
    3 verses
    78%

    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 27:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

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

    3and 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."'

  • Ezek 27:35-36
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Zeph 1:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10On that day—this is the Lord’s declaration—there will be an outcry from the Fish Gate, wailing from the Second District, and a loud crash from the hills.

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

  • Mic 1:11
    72%

    11Pass by, naked and ashamed, you inhabitants of Shaphir. The inhabitants of Zaanan do not come out. Beth-ezel is in mourning; its support is taken from you.

  • Ezek 27:12
    72%

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

  • Isa 60:9
    71%

    9Surely 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.

  • Jer 2:10
    71%

    10Go across to the coasts of Cyprus and look, send to Kedar and observe closely; see if there has ever been anything like this.

  • Jer 25:22
    71%

    22All the kings of Tyre and all the kings of Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea.

  • Zech 9:4
    70%

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

  • Ezek 26:3-5
    3 verses
    70%

    3Therefore, 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.'

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

    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 2:16
    70%

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

  • Isa 24:14
    70%

    14They raise their voices, they sing for joy; from the west they shout over the majesty of the Lord.

  • Isa 13:22
    70%

    22Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in its luxurious palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.

  • Jer 22:20
    70%

    20Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your allies are crushed.

  • Zeph 2:15
    70%

    15This is the jubilant city that dwelled securely and said in her heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me.' How she has become a desolation, a resting place for wild animals! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

  • Zeph 2:5
    70%

    5Woe to you who live by the sea, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, and there will be no inhabitants left.

  • Isa 21:1
    70%

    1This is a prophecy about the wilderness by the sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, it comes from the desert, from a dreadful land.

  • Ps 48:7
    70%

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

  • Nah 3:7
    69%

    7Everyone who sees you will flee from you, saying, 'Nineveh is devastated! Who will mourn for her? Where can I find anyone to comfort you?'