Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
For your stronghold is destroyed.

King James Version

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

Holman Bible

Wail, ships of Tarshish,
because your fortress is destroyed!

International Standard Version

Wail, you ships of Tarshish, because your stronghold is destroyed!"

A Conservative Version

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ילל 
Yalal 
Usage: 32

ye ships
אניּה 
'oniyah 
Usage: 31

תּרשׁישׁ 
Tarshiysh 
Usage: 28

מעז מעז מעוּז מעוז 
Ma`owz 
Usage: 36

References

Context Readings

Oracle Against Tyre

13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin. 14 Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
For your stronghold is destroyed.
15 Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

Cross References

Isaiah 23:1

The oracle concerning Tyre.
Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
For Tyre is destroyed, without house or harbor;
It is reported to them from the land of Cyprus.

Isaiah 2:16

Against all the ships of Tarshish
And against all the beautiful craft.

Isaiah 23:6

Pass over to Tarshish;
Wail, O inhabitants of the coastland.

Ezekiel 27:25-30

The ships of Tarshish were the carriers for your merchandise.
And you were filled and were very glorious
In the heart of the seas.

Revelation 18:11-19

“And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargoes any more—

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