Thematic Bible
Isaiah 23:1 (show verse)
The oracle concerning Tyre.
Wail, Oships of Tarshish,
For Tyre is destroyed, without house orharbor;
It is reported to them from the land ofCyprus.
Wail, O
For Tyre is destroyed, without house or
It is reported to them from the land of
Isaiah 23:2 (show verse)
You merchants of Sidon;
Isaiah 23:3 (show verse)
And she was the
Isaiah 23:4 (show verse)
For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,
“I have neither travailed nor given birth,
I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins.”
Isaiah 23:5 (show verse)
They will be in
Isaiah 23:6 (show verse)
Wail, O inhabitants of the coastland.
Isaiah 23:7 (show verse)
Whose origin is from antiquity,
Whose feet used to carry her to
Isaiah 23:8 (show verse)
Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?
Isaiah 23:9 (show verse)
To despise all the
Isaiah 23:10 (show verse)
There is no more
Isaiah 23:11 (show verse)
He has
The Lord has given a command concerning Canaan to
Isaiah 23:12 (show verse)
Arise, pass over to
Isaiah 23:13 (show verse)
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.
Isaiah 23:14 (show verse)
For your stronghold is destroyed.
Isaiah 23:15 (show verse)
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:
Isaiah 23:16 (show verse)
O forgotten harlot;
Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs,
That you may be remembered.
Isaiah 23:17 (show verse)
It will come about at the end of seventy years that the Lord will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot’s wages and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
Isaiah 23:18 (show verse)
Her gain and her harlot’s wages will be set apart to the Lord; it will not be stored up or hoarded, but her gain will become sufficient food and choice attire for those who dwell in the presence of the Lord.