Isaiah 23:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

The lord

Against the merchant city

Isaiah 23:3

Hosea 12:7

The merchant city

John 2:16

Strong holds

Zechariah 9:3

Bible References

Stretched

Men will go into caves of the rocks
And into holes of the ground
Before the terror of the Lord
And the splendor of His majesty,
When He arises to make the earth tremble.

“Those who see you will gaze at you,
They will ponder over you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,

“At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up,

The flowing waters stood up like a heap;

The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered;
He

raised His voice, the earth melted.

Because of the multitude of his horses, the dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of cavalry and wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached.

‘Now that you are broken by the seas
In the depths of the waters,
Your merchandise and all your company
Have fallen in the midst of you.

I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath.

I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the wealth of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the Lord of hosts.

The lord

I send it against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My fury
To capture booty and to seize plunder,
And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

Be to me a rock of habitation to which I may continually come;

You have given commandment to save me,
For You are my rock and my fortress.

“How can it be quiet,
When the Lord has given it an order?
Against Ashkelon and against the seacoast—
There He has assigned it.”

The Lord has issued a command concerning you:
“Your name will no longer be perpetuated.
I will cut off

idol and image

From the house of your gods.
I will prepare your grave,
For you are contemptible.”

Against the merchant city

And were on many waters.

The grain of the

Nile, the harvest of the River was her revenue;

And she was the market of nations.

A merchant, in whose hands are false balances,
He loves to oppress.

The merchant city

So he said,
“Cursed be Canaan;

A servant of servants

He shall be to his brothers.”

Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth

Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a

Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts in that day.

And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a robbers’ den.”

and to those who were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of business.”

Strong holds

For Tyre built herself a fortress
And piled up silver like dust,
And gold like the mire of the streets.