Isaiah 23
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The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

A.M.3289. B.C.715
burden. Tyre, whose destruction by Nebuchadnezzar is here foretold, was a city of Phoenicia, on the shore of the Mediterranean, twenty-four miles south of Sidon, and thirty-two north of Accho or Ptolemais, according to the Antonine and Jerusalem Itineraries, about lat.

Jeremiah 25:15,22 For thus said the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of …

Jeremiah 47:4 Because of the day that comes to spoil all the Philistines, and to …

Ezekiel 26:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the …

Ezekiel 27:1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

Ezekiel 28:1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

Joel 3:4-8 Yes, and what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all …

Amos 1:9,10 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, …

Zechariah 9:2,4 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it …

Howl

Isaiah 15:2,8 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: …

Revelation 18:17-19 For in one hour so great riches is come to nothing. And every shipmaster, …

ye ships

Isaiah 2:16 And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all pleasant pictures.

Isaiah 60:9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, …

1 Kings 22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but …

2 Chronicles 9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: …

Psalm 48:7 You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

Ezekiel 27:25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of you in your market: and you were …

for it is

Isaiah 15:1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, …

Jeremiah 25:10,11 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice …

Revelation 18:22,23 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, …

the land

Isaiah 23:12 And he said, You shall no more rejoice, O you oppressed virgin, daughter …

Numbers 24:24 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict …

Jeremiah 2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and …

Ezekiel 27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; the company of the …

Daniel 11:30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall …

Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

Lord

Isaiah 10:33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: …

Isaiah 14:24,27 The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so …

Isaiah 46:10,11 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the …

Jeremiah 47:6,7 O you sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere you be quiet? put …

Jeremiah 51:62 Then shall you say, O LORD, you have spoken against this place, to …

Acts 4:28 For to do whatever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done.

Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance…

Ephesians 3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

to stain. Heb. to pollute

Isaiah 2:11,17 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men …

Isaiah 5:15,16 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall …

Isaiah 13:11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their …

Job 40:11,12 Cast abroad the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is …

Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, …

Malachi 4:1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the …

James 4:6 But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but …

bring

Job 12:21 He pours contempt on princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.

Psalm 107:40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, …

1 Corinthians 1:26-29 For you see your calling, brothers, how that not many wise men after …

Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

stretched

Isaiah 2:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves …

Isaiah 14:16,17 They that see you shall narrowly look on you, and consider you, saying, …

Exodus 15:8-10 And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, …

Psalm 46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, …

Ezekiel 26:10,15-19 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you: …

Ezekiel 27:34,35 In the time when you shall be broken by the seas in the depths of …

Ezekiel 31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast …

Haggai 2:7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall …

the Lord

Isaiah 10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people …

Psalm 71:3 Be you my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: …

Jeremiah 47:7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD has given it a charge against …

Nahum 1:14 And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you, that no more …

against the merchant city. or, concerning a merchantman

Isaiah 23:3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, …

Hosea 12:7,8 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress…

the merchant city. Heb. Canaan

Genesis 9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be …

Genesis 10:15-19 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth…

Zechariah 14:21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the …

Mark 11:17 And he taught, saying to them, Is it not written, My house shall …

John 2:16 And said to them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not …

strong holds. or, strengths

Zechariah 9:3,4 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as …

And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.

thou shalt

Isaiah 23:1,7 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, …

Ezekiel 26:13,14 And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound …

Revelation 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, …

thou oppressed

Isaiah 37:22 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, …

Isaiah 47:1,5 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit …

Jeremiah 14:17 Therefore you shall say this word to them; Let my eyes run down with …

Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: …

Lamentations 1:15 The LORD has trodden under foot all my mighty men in the middle of …

daughter. 'The Sidonians', says Justin, 'when their city was taken by the king of Ascalon, betook themselves to their ships; and landed and built Tyre'; Sidon was therefore the mother city.

Isaiah 23:2 Be still, you inhabitants of the isle; you whom the merchants of …

Genesis 10:15-19 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth…

Genesis 49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for …

Joshua 11:8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, …

pass

Isaiah 23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, …

Numbers 24:24 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict …

Ezekiel 27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; the company of the …

there also

Deuteronomy 28:64-67 And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end …

Lamentations 1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of …

Lamentations 4:15 They cried to them, Depart you; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch …

Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

her merchandise

Isaiah 60:6,7 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian …

2 Chronicles 2:7-9,11-16 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, …

Psalm 45:12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich …

Psalm 72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the …

Zechariah 14:20,21 In that day shall there be on the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD…

Mark 3:8 And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and …

Acts 21:3-5 Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and …

it shall

Matthew 6:19-21 Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust …

Luke 12:18-20,33 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build …

Luke 16:9-13 And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; …

for them

Deuteronomy 12:18,19 But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which …

Deuteronomy 26:12-14 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase …

Proverbs 3:9,10 Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the first fruits of …

Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: and …

Proverbs 28:8 He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall …

Ecclesiastes 2:26 For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, …

Malachi 3:10 Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat …

Matthew 25:35-40 For I was an hungered, and you gave me meat: I was thirsty, and you …

Luke 8:3 And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many …

Acts 9:39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought …

Romans 15:25-27 But now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints…

Galatians 6:6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teaches …

Philippians 4:17,18 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to …

durable. Heb. old

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