Isaiah 23:7
Is this really your boisterous city whose origins are in the distant past, and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?
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- Isa 22:2 : 2 The noisy city is full of raucous sounds; the town is filled with revelry. Your slain were not cut down by the sword; they did not die in battle.
- Isa 32:13 : 13 Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry.
- Isa 47:1-2 : 1 Babylon Will Fall“Fall down! Sit in the dirt, O virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground, not on a throne, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called delicate and pampered. 2 Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams!
- Josh 19:29 : 29 It then turned toward Ramah as far as the fortified city of Tyre, turned to Hosah, and ended at the sea near Hebel, Achzib,
- Eccl 10:7 : 7 I have seen slaves on horseback and princes walking on foot like slaves.
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8 Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?
- Isa 23:1-66 verses81%
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
3 the deep waters! Grain from the Shihor region, crops grown near the Nile she receives; she is the trade center of the nations.
4 Be 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.”
5 When the news reaches Egypt, they will be shaken by what has happened to Tyre.
6 Travel to Tarshish! Wail, you residents of the coast!
- Ezek 27:31-333 verses76%
31 they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth, and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning.
32 As they wail they will lament over you, chanting:“Who was like Tyre, like a tower in the midst of the sea?”
33 When 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 23:12-187 verses75%
12 He said,“You will no longer celebrate, oppressed virgin daughter Sidon! Get up, travel to Cyprus, but you will find no relief there.”
13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans, these people who have lost their identity! The Assyrians have made it a home for wild animals. They erected their siege towers, demolished its fortresses, and turned it into a heap of ruins.
14 Wail, you large ships, for your fortress is destroyed!
15 At 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!”
17 At 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.
18 Her profits and earnings will be set apart for the LORD. They will not be stored up or accumulated, for her profits will be given to those who live in the LORD’s presence and will be used to purchase large quantities of food and beautiful clothes.
- Ezek 26:17-182 verses75%
17 They 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!
18 Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’
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15 This 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.
- Zech 9:3-42 verses74%
3 Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!
4 Nevertheless the Lord will evict her and shove her fortifications into the sea– she will be consumed by fire.
- Ezek 27:2-43 verses73%
2 “You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre.
3 Say 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.”
4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.
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25 The ships of Tarshish were the transports for your merchandise.“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.
- Ezek 27:8-92 verses72%
8 The leaders of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were your captains.
9 The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were within you, mending cracks; all the ships of the sea and their mariners were within you to trade for your merchandise.
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25 How deserted will that once-famous city be, that city that was once filled with joy!
- Isa 22:1-22 verses71%
1 The Lord Will Judge Jerusalem This is an oracle about the Valley of Vision: What is the reason that all of you go up to the rooftops?
2 The noisy city is full of raucous sounds; the town is filled with revelry. Your slain were not cut down by the sword; they did not die in battle.
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26 Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.
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2 “Son of man, because Tyre has said about Jerusalem,‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, now that she has been destroyed,’
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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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1 ¶ The Prophet Speaks:א(Alef) Alas! The city once full of people now sits all alone! The prominent lady among the nations has become a widow! The princess who once ruled the provinces has become a forced laborer!
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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!
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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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8 “‘People from other nations will pass by this city. They will ask one another,“Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?”
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15 ס(Samek) All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem.“Ha! Is this the city they called‘The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!’?”
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2 Indeed, you have made the city into a heap of rubble, the fortified town into a heap of ruins; the fortress of foreigners is no longer a city, it will never be rebuilt.
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7 ז(Zayin) Jerusalem remembers, when she became a poor homeless person, all her treasures that she owned in days of old. When her people fell into an enemy’s grip, none of her allies came to her rescue. Her enemies gloated over her; they sneered at her downfall.
- Joel 3:4-52 verses69%
4 Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon? Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia? If you are, I will very quickly repay you for what you have done!
5 For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.
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27 Your 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.
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9 Indeed, 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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4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.
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22 all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon; all the kings of the coastlands along the sea;
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1 Jerusalem is Corrupt Beware to the filthy, stained city; the city filled with oppressors!
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5 ה(He) Her foes subjugated her; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD afflicted her because of her many acts of rebellion. Her children went away captive before the enemy.
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7 Everyone 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!”