Isaiah 23:6
Travel to Tarshish! Wail, you residents of the coast!
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- Isa 23:12 : 12 He said,“You will no longer celebrate, oppressed virgin daughter Sidon! Get up, travel to Cyprus, but you will find no relief there.”
- Isa 16:7 : 7 So Moab wails over its demise– they all wail! Completely devastated, they moan about what has happened to the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.
- Isa 21:15 : 15 For they flee from the swords– from the drawn sword and from the battle-ready bow and from the severity of the battle.
- Isa 23:1-2 : 1 The Lord Will Judge Tyre This is an oracle about Tyre: Wail, you large ships, for the port is too devastated to enter! From the land of Cyprus this news is announced to them. 2 Lament, you residents of the coast, you merchants of Sidon who travel over the sea, whose agents sail over
- Isa 23:10 : 10 Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile; there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.
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- Isa 23:1-22 verses83%
1The Lord Will Judge Tyre This is an oracle about Tyre: Wail, you large ships, for the port is too devastated to enter! From the land of Cyprus this news is announced to them.
2Lament, you residents of the coast, you merchants of Sidon who travel over the sea, whose agents sail over
- Isa 23:14-174 verses82%
14Wail, you large ships, for your fortress is destroyed!
15At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the typical life span of a king. At the end of seventy years Tyre will try to attract attention again, like the prostitute in the popular song:
16“Take the harp, go through the city, forgotten prostitute! Play it well, play lots of songs, so you’ll be noticed!”
17At the end of seventy years the LORD will revive Tyre. She will start making money again by selling her services to all the earth’s kingdoms.
- Isa 23:7-82 verses81%
7Is this really your boisterous city whose origins are in the distant past, and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?
8Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?
- Ezek 27:25-339 verses79%
25The ships of Tarshish were the transports for your merchandise.“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.
26Your rowers have brought you into surging waters. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.
27Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains, your ship’s carpenters, your merchants, and all your fighting men within you, along with all your crew who are in you, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.
28At the sound of your captains’ cry the waves will surge;
29They will descend from their ships– all who handle the oar, the sailors and all the sea captains– they will stand on the land.
30They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;
31they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth, and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning.
32As they wail they will lament over you, chanting:“Who was like Tyre, like a tower in the midst of the sea?”
33When your products went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.
- Isa 23:4-52 verses78%
4Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea says this, O fortress of the sea:“I have not gone into labor or given birth; I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
5When the news reaches Egypt, they will be shaken by what has happened to Tyre.
- Ezek 26:15-184 verses78%
15“This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!
16All the princes of the sea will vacate their thrones. They will remove their robes and strip off their embroidered clothes; they will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground; they will tremble continually and be shocked at what has happened to you.
17They will sing this lament over you:“‘How you have perished– you have vanished from the seas, O renowned city, once mighty in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror!
18Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’
- Isa 23:10-123 verses78%
10Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile; there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.
11The LORD stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook kingdoms; he gave the order to destroy Canaan’s fortresses.
12He said,“You will no longer celebrate, oppressed virgin daughter Sidon! Get up, travel to Cyprus, but you will find no relief there.”
- Ezek 27:2-32 verses74%
2“You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre.
3Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance of the sea, merchant to the peoples on many coasts,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘O Tyre, you have said,“I am perfectly beautiful.”
- Ezek 27:35-362 verses74%
35All the inhabitants of the coastlands are shocked at you, and their kings are horribly afraid– their faces are troubled.
36The traders among the peoples hiss at you; you have become a horror, and will be no more.’”
- Zeph 1:10-112 verses73%
10On that day,” says the LORD,“a loud cry will go up from the Fish Gate, wailing from the city’s newer district, and a loud crash from the hills.
11Wail, you who live in the market district, for all the merchants will disappear and those who count money will be removed.
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11Residents of Shaphir, pass by in nakedness and humiliation! The residents of Zaanan have not escaped. Beth Ezel mourns,“He takes from you what he desires.”
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12“‘Tarshish was your trade partner because of your abundant wealth; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your products.
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9Indeed, the coastlands look eagerly for me, the large ships are in the lead, bringing your sons from far away, along with their silver and gold, to honor the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has bestowed honor on you.
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10Go west across the sea to the coasts of Cyprus and see. Send someone east to Kedar and have them look carefully. See if such a thing as this has ever happened:
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22all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon; all the kings of the coastlands along the sea;
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4Nevertheless the Lord will evict her and shove her fortifications into the sea– she will be consumed by fire.
- Ezek 26:3-53 verses70%
3therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am against you, O Tyre! I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
4They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.
5She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. She will become plunder for the nations,
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16for all the large ships, for all the impressive ships.
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14They lift their voices and shout joyfully; they praise the majesty of the LORD in the west.
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22Wild dogs will yip in her ruined fortresses, jackals will yelp in the once-splendid palaces. Her time is almost up, her days will not be prolonged.
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20Warning to Jerusalem People of Jerusalem, go up to Lebanon and cry out in mourning. Go to the land of Bashan and cry out loudly. Cry out in mourning from the mountains of Moab. For your allies have all been defeated.
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15This is how the once-proud city will end up– the city that was so secure. She thought to herself,“I am unique! No one can compare to me!” What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live! Everyone who passes by her taunts her and shakes his fist.
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5Beware, you who live by the sea, the people who came from Crete. The LORD’s message is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines:“I will destroy everyone who lives there!”
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1The Lord Will Judge Babylon This is an oracle about the wilderness by the Sea: Like strong winds blowing in the south, one invades from the wilderness, from a land that is feared.
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7With an east wind you shatter the large ships.
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7Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust; they will say,‘Nineveh has been devastated! Who will lament for her?’ There will be no one to comfort you!”