Isaiah 23:15

World English Bible (2000)

It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.

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  • Jer 25:22 : 22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
  • Jer 27:3-7 : 3 and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah; 4 and give them a command to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, You shall tell your masters: 5 I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me. 6 Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field also have I given him to serve him. 7 All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant.
  • Jer 29:10 : 10 For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
  • Ezek 27:25 : 25 The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.
  • Ezek 29:11 : 11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
  • Dan 7:14 : 14 There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
  • Dan 8:21 : 21 The rough male goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
  • Hos 2:15 : 15 I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
  • Rev 17:10 : 10 They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.
  • Jer 25:9-9 : 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. 11 This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

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  • Isa 23:16-18
    3 verses
    88%

    16 Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.

    17 It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.

    18 Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

  • Isa 23:14
    80%

    14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!

  • Isa 23:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

    2 Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

  • Ezek 27:31-36
    6 verses
    77%

    31 and they shall make themselves bald for you, and clothe them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.

    32 In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?

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

    34 In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of you.

    35 All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.

    36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.

  • Isa 23:4-8
    5 verses
    76%

    4 Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins."

    5 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.

    6 Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!

    7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?

    8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

  • Jer 25:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

    12 It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.

  • Ezek 26:13-18
    6 verses
    72%

    13 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.

    14 I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of nets; you shall be built no more: for I Yahweh have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.

    15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?

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

    17 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!

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

  • Ezek 26:2-5
    4 verses
    71%

    2 Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken: the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:

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

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

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

  • Ezek 27:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

    3 and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.

  • Ezek 27:25
    71%

    25 The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.

  • Isa 23:10
    70%

    10 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

  • Amos 1:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole community to Edom, and didn't remember the brotherly covenant;

    10 but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will devour its palaces."

  • Zech 9:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

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

    4 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.

  • Isa 23:12
    69%

    12 He said, "You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest."

  • Jer 29:10
    68%

    10 For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

  • Isa 47:7-8
    2 verses
    68%

    7 You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.

    8 "Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

  • Ezek 16:35
    68%

    35 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:

  • Ezek 27:27
    68%

    27 Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.

  • Ezek 23:35
    67%

    35 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.

  • Isa 3:26
    67%

    26 Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

  • Jer 23:40
    67%

    40 and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

  • Ezek 27:9
    67%

    9 The old men of Gebal and the wise men of it were in you your repairers of ship seams: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.

  • Ezek 23:17
    67%

    17 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

  • Ezek 16:41
    66%

    41 They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more.

  • Ezek 23:30
    66%

    30 These things shall be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.