Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste.
New American Standard Bible
For your stronghold is destroyed.
King James Version
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
Holman Bible
because your fortress is destroyed!
International Standard Version
Wail, you ships of Tarshish, because your stronghold is destroyed!"
American Standard Version
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste.
Amplified
Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
For your stronghold [of Tyre] is destroyed.
Bible in Basic English
Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste
Darby Translation
Howl, ships of Tarshish! for your fortress is laid waste.
Julia Smith Translation
Wail, ye ships of Tarshish: your strength was laid waste.
King James 2000
Wail, you ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Wail, ships of Tarshish! For your fortress is destroyed
Modern King James verseion
Howl, ships of Tarshish! For your strength is laid waste.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Mourn, ye ships of Tarshish, for your power shall be thrown down.
NET Bible
Wail, you large ships, for your fortress is destroyed!
New Heart English Bible
Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste.
The Emphasized Bible
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, - For laid waste is your fortress.
Webster
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
World English Bible
Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!
Youngs Literal Translation
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For your strength hath been destroyed.
Themes
Tarshish » Also called tharshish » Commerce and wealth of
Tarshish » Also called tharshish » Prophecies concerning
Tyre » Prophecies respecting » To be destroyed by the king of babylon
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 23:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oracle Against Tyre
13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people [once] was not. The Assyrian founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They raised up the palaces of it. [Then] they made it a ruin. 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste. 15 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 it shall be to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 23:1
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. It is revealed to them from the land of Kittim.
Isaiah 2:16
and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant imagery.
Isaiah 23:6
Pass ye over to Tarshish. Wail, ye inhabitants of the coast.
Ezekiel 27:25-30
The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy merchandise. And thou were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.
Revelation 18:11-19
And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her, because no man buys their merchandise any more,