Isaiah 23:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Isa 23:12 : 12 And 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.
  • Isa 16:7 : 7 Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab, everyone shall wail: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall you mourn; surely they are stricken.
  • Isa 21:15 : 15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the distress of war.
  • Isa 23:1-2 : 1 The 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. 2 Be silent, you inhabitants of the island; you whom the merchants of Zidon, that cross over the sea, have filled.
  • Isa 23:10 : 10 Flow through your land like a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more restraint.

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  • Isa 23:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    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.

  • Isa 23:14-17
    4 verses
    82%

    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.

  • Isa 23:7-8
    2 verses
    81%

    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 27:25-33
    9 verses
    79%

    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.

    27Your riches, and your markets, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your caulkers, and the occupiers of your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, and in all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of your ruin.

    28The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots.

    29And 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;

    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.

  • Isa 23:4-5
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

    5As at the report concerning Egypt, so they shall be greatly pained at the report of Tyre.

  • Ezek 26:15-18
    4 verses
    78%

    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 23:10-12
    3 verses
    78%

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

    11He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD has given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy its strongholds.

    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.

  • Ezek 27:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Ezek 27:35-36
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

    36The merchants among the peoples shall hiss at you; you shall be a terror, and never shall be any more.

  • Zeph 1:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

    11Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all those who handle silver are cut off.

  • Mic 1:11
    72%

    11Pass away, you inhabitant of Saphir, in naked shame: the inhabitant of Zaanan did not go out in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive from you his standing.

  • Ezek 27:12
    72%

    12Tarshish was your merchant because of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in your markets.

  • Isa 60:9
    71%

    9Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the LORD your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you.

  • Jer 2:10
    71%

    10For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.

  • Jer 25:22
    71%

    22And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea,

  • Zech 9:4
    70%

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

  • Ezek 26:3-5
    3 verses
    70%

    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 2:16
    70%

    16And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

  • Isa 24:14
    70%

    14They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

  • Isa 13:22
    70%

    22And the wild beasts of the islands will cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.

  • Jer 22:20
    70%

    20Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all your lovers are destroyed.

  • Zeph 2:15
    70%

    15This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how has she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone that passes by her shall hiss, and shake his hand.

  • Zeph 2:5
    70%

    5Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will destroy you, so there shall be no inhabitant.

  • Isa 21:1
    70%

    1The prophecy concerning the desert by the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through, so it comes from the desert, from a dreadful land.

  • Ps 48:7
    70%

    7You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

  • Nah 3:7
    69%

    7And it shall come to pass, that all who look upon you will flee from you, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will mourn for her? From where shall I seek comforters for you?