Isaiah 23:6
Good News Translation
Howl with grief, you people of Phoenicia! Try to escape to Spain!

New Revised Standard Version
Cross over to Tarshish— wail, O inhabitants of the coast!

Contemporary English Version
All of you along the coast had better cry and sail far across the ocean.

New American Bible
Pass over to Tarshish, wail, you who dwell on the coast!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Pass over the seas, howl, ye inhabitants of the island.

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Pass over the seas, howl, ye inhabitants of the island.

pass

Isaiah 23:10,12 Pass thy land as a river, O daughter of the sea, thou hast a girdle no more. . . .

Isaiah 21:15 For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.

howl

Isaiah 23:1,2 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the house is destroyed, from whence they were wont to come: from the land of Cethim it is revealed to them. . . .

Isaiah 16:7 Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, every one shall howl: to them that rejoice upon the brick walls, tell ye their stripes.

Context
The Fall of Tyre
5When it shall be heard in Egypt, they will be sorry when they shall hear of Tyre: 6Pass over the seas, howl, ye inhabitants of the island.7Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her antiquity? her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.…
Cross References
Isaiah 23:1
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the house is destroyed, from whence they were wont to come: from the land of Cethim it is revealed to them.

Jeremiah 10:9
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tharsis, and gold from Ophaz: the work of the artificer, and of the hand of the coppersmith: violet and purple is their clothing: all these things are the work of artificers.

Ezekiel 27:35
All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at thee: and all their kings being struck with the storm have changed their countenance.

Jonah 1:3
Arise and go to Ninive, the great city, and preach in it: For the wickedness thereof is come up before me.

Isaiah 23:5
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