Isaiah 23:8

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Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?

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  • Deut 29:24-28 : 24 Then all the nations will ask,“Why has the LORD done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?” 25 Then people will say,“Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 26 They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. 27 That is why the LORD’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll. 28 So the LORD has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”
  • Isa 10:8 : 8 Indeed, he says:“Are not my officials all kings?
  • Isa 36:9 : 9 Certainly you will not refuse one of my master’s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.
  • Jer 50:44-45 : 44 “A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Babylonians off of their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me. There is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler that can stand up against me. 45 So listen to what I, the LORD, have planned against Babylon, what I intend to do to the people who inhabit the land of Babylonia. Their little ones will be dragged off. I will completely destroy their land because of what they have done.
  • Ezek 28:2-6 : 2 “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Your heart is proud and you said,“I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas”– yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike. 3 Look, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you. 4 By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself; you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries. 5 By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth. 6 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you think you are godlike,
  • Ezek 28:12-18 : 12 “Son of man, sing a lament for the king of Tyre, and say to him,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘You were the sealer of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering, the ruby, topaz, and emerald, the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper, the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl; your settings and mounts were made of gold. On the day you were created they were prepared. 14 I placed you there with an anointed guardian cherub; you were on the holy mountain of God; you walked about amidst fiery stones. 15 You were blameless in your behavior from the day you were created, until sin was discovered in you. 16 In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned; so I defiled you and banished you from the mountain of God– the guardian cherub expelled you from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor. I threw you down to the ground; I placed you before kings, that they might see you. 18 By the multitude of your iniquities, through the sinfulness of your trade, you desecrated your sanctuaries. So I drew fire out from within you; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth before the eyes of all who saw you.
  • Rev 18:8 : 8 For this reason, she will experience her plagues in a single day: disease, mourning, and famine, and she will be burned down with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!”

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  • Isa 23:9-11
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    9The LORD of Heaven’s Armies planned it– to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.

    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.

  • Isa 23:5-7
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    5When the news reaches Egypt, they will be shaken by what has happened to Tyre.

    6Travel to Tarshish! Wail, you residents of the coast!

    7Is this really your boisterous city whose origins are in the distant past, and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?

  • Ezek 27:32-35
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    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.

    34Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.

    35All the inhabitants of the coastlands are shocked at you, and their kings are horribly afraid– their faces are troubled.

  • Isa 23:1-3
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    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

    3the deep waters! Grain from the Shihor region, crops grown near the Nile she receives; she is the trade center of the nations.

  • Ezek 27:7-9
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    7Fine linen from Egypt, woven with patterns, was used for your sail to serve as your banner; blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah was used for your deck’s awning.

    8The leaders of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were your captains.

    9The 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.

  • Ezek 27:2-4
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    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.”

    4Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

  • Zech 9:3
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    3Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

  • Ezek 27:12-13
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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.

    13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your clients; they exchanged slaves and bronze items for your merchandise.

  • Ezek 27:22-25
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    22The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.

    23Haran, Kanneh, Eden, merchants from Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad were your clients.

    24They traded with you choice garments, purple clothes and embroidered work, and multicolored carpets, bound and reinforced with cords; these were among your merchandise.

    25The ships of Tarshish were the transports for your merchandise.“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.

  • Isa 23:17-18
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    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.

    18Her 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.

  • Jer 25:22
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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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    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!

  • Ezek 28:5
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    5By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth.

  • Joel 3:4-5
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    4Why 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!

    5For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.

  • Isa 23:14-15
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    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:

  • Ezek 26:2-4
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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,’

    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.

  • Zeph 1:11
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    11Wail, you who live in the market district, for all the merchants will disappear and those who count money will be removed.

  • Rev 18:15
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    15The merchants who sold these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep and mourn,

  • Ezek 27:27
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    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.

  • Ezek 27:15-16
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    15The Dedanites were your clients. Many coastlands were your customers; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.

    16Edom was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your products.

  • Rev 18:11
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    11Then the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo any longer–

  • Ezek 28:12
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    12“Son of man, sing a lament for the king of Tyre, and say to him,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘You were the sealer of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

  • Job 3:14
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    14with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,

  • Amos 1:10
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    10So I will set fire to Tyre’s city wall; fire will consume her fortresses.”

  • Jer 51:13
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    13“You who live along the rivers of Babylon, the time of your end has come. You who are rich in plundered treasure, it is time for your lives to be cut off.