◄ Isaiah 23:14 ►
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Good News Translation
Howl with grief, you sailors out on the ocean! The city you relied on has been destroyed.

New Revised Standard Version
Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your fortress is destroyed.

Contemporary English Version
Not a fortress will be left standing, so tell all the seagoing ships to mourn.

New American Bible
Lament, ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is destroyed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Howl, O ye ships of the sea, for your strength is laid waste.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Howl, O ye ships of the sea, for your strength is laid waste.

Isaiah 23:1,6 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the house is destroyed, from whence they were wont to come: from the land of Cethim it is revealed to them. . . .

Ezekiel 27:25-30 The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea. . . .

Revelation 18:11-19 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their merchandise any more. . . .

Context
The Fall of Tyre
…13Behold the land of the Chaldeans, there was not such a people, the Assyrians founded it: they have led away the strong ones thereof into captivity, they have destroyed the houses thereof, they have, brought it to ruin. 14Howl, O ye ships of the sea, for your strength is laid waste.15And it shall come to pass in that day that thou, O Tyre, shalt be forgotten, seventy years, according to the days of one king: but after seventy years, there shall be unto Tyre as the song of a harlot.…
Cross References
Isaiah 2:16
And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is fair to behold.

Ezekiel 27:25
The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea.

Ezekiel 27:26
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind hath broken thee in the heart of the sea.

Isaiah 23:13
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