Isaiah 23:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

As at the report concerning Egypt, so they shall be greatly pained at the report of Tyre.

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  • Exod 15:14-16 : 14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. 15 Then the chiefs of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. 16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over whom you have purchased.
  • Josh 2:9-9 : 9 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that your terror has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. 10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did unto the two kings of the Amorites, who were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. 11 And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.
  • Isa 19:16 : 16 In that day Egypt shall be like women, and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He shakes over it.
  • Ezek 26:15-21 : 15 Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in your midst? 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes and put off their embroidered garments; they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground and tremble every moment, and be astonished at you. 17 And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and say to you: 'How are you destroyed, that were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, which was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all that haunt it!' 18 Now shall the isles tremble on the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at your departure. 19 For thus says the Lord GOD: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I shall bring up the deep upon you, and great waters shall cover you, 20 when I shall bring you down with those who descend into the pit, with the people of old, and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places long desolate, with those who go down to the pit, so that you are not inhabited; and I will set beauty in the land of the living, 21 I will make you a terror, and you shall be no more; though you be sought for, you shall never be found again, says the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 27:29-36 : 29 And all who handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; 30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, What city is like Tyre, like the one destroyed in the midst of the sea? 33 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many people; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise. 34 In the time when you shall be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters your merchandise and all your company in the midst of you shall fall. 35 All the inhabitants of the islands shall be astonished at you, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. 36 The merchants among the peoples shall hiss at you; you shall be a terror, and never shall be any more.
  • Ezek 28:19 : 19 All who know you among the people shall be astonished at you: you shall be a terror, and never shall you be any more.
  • Rev 18:17-19 : 17 For in one hour such great riches came to nothing. And every captain, and all who travel by ship, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood far off, 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like this great city! 19 And they threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea were made rich by her wealth! for in one hour she is made desolate.

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  • Isa 23:1-4
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    1The burden concerning Tyre. Wail, you ships of Tarshish; for it is destroyed, so there is no house, no entrance: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

    2Be silent, you inhabitants of the island; you whom the merchants of Zidon, that cross over the sea, have filled.

    3And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a marketplace of nations.

    4Be ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea has spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I do not travail, nor bring forth children, neither do I rear young men, nor raise virgins.

  • Ezek 27:30-35
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    30And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

    31And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

    32And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, What city is like Tyre, like the one destroyed in the midst of the sea?

    33When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many people; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.

    34In the time when you shall be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters your merchandise and all your company in the midst of you shall fall.

    35All the inhabitants of the islands shall be astonished at you, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

  • Isa 23:6-8
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    6Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the island.

    7Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is from ancient days? her own feet shall carry her far away to sojourn.

    8Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

  • Ezek 26:15-18
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    15Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in your midst?

    16Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes and put off their embroidered garments; they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground and tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

    17And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and say to you: 'How are you destroyed, that were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, which was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all that haunt it!'

    18Now shall the isles tremble on the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at your departure.

  • Isa 23:14-17
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    14Wail, you ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

    15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as a harlot.

    16Take a harp, go about the city, you harlot that has been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered.

    17And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

  • Ezek 27:2-4
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    2Now, you son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;

    3And say to Tyre, O you who are situated at the entry of the sea, a merchant of the peoples for many islands, Thus says the Lord GOD; O Tyre, you have said, I am of perfect beauty.

    4Your borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.

  • Ezek 26:2-5
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    2Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, 'Aha, she is broken, that was the gate of the peoples; she has turned to me; I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste.'

    3Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

    4And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

    5It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD; and it shall become a spoil to the nations.

  • Isa 23:10
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    10Flow through your land like a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more restraint.

  • Isa 23:12
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    12And he said, You shall rejoice no more, O oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, cross over to Chittim; there also you shall have no rest.

  • Jer 49:23
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    23Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded and Arpad, for they have heard bad news: they are fainthearted; there is anxiety on the sea; it cannot be still.

  • Amos 1:9-10
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    9Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and did not remember the brotherly covenant:

    10But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, which shall devour its palaces.

  • Jer 25:22
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    22And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea,

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

    3And Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the dirt of the streets.

    4Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and will strike her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

  • Ezek 30:9
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    9In that day messengers will go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain will come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, behold, it comes.

  • Jer 22:23
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    23O inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how gracious shall you be when pangs come upon you, the pain as of a woman in labor!

  • Ezek 30:4
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    4And the sword will come upon Egypt, and great pain will be in Ethiopia, when the slain fall in Egypt, and they take away her multitude, and her foundations are broken down.

  • Ezek 27:25-26
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    25The ships of Tarshish sang of you in your market: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

    26Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas.

  • Isa 20:5
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    5And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their boast.

  • Ezek 27:7-9
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    7Fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was what you spread forth to be your sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was what covered you.

    8The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were your mariners: your wise men, O Tyre, who were in you, were your pilots.

    9The elders of Gebal and its wise men were in you, your caulkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to occupy your merchandise.

  • Jer 46:12
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    12The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land: for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, and they have both fallen together.

  • Jer 6:24
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    24We have heard the report, our hands grow weak; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in labor.

  • Jer 50:43
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    43The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands grew feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in labor.

  • Ps 48:6
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    6Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in labor.