Isaiah 23:1

WEB

¹The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

KJV

¹The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

BSB

¹This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish,^[+] for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

FBV

¹A message about Tyre. Howl, people on the ships of Tarshish! Tyre has been destroyed—nothing is left of the houses and the harbor. They heard the news from the people of Cyprus.

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Extra References

Joel 3:4-8

⁴“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head. ⁵Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples, ⁶and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border. ⁷Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head; ⁸and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for the LORD has spoken it.”

Genesis 10:4

⁴The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Amos 1:9-10

⁹The LORD says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole community to Edom, and didn’t remember the brotherly covenant; ¹⁰but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will devour its palaces.”

Jeremiah 47:4

⁴because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; for the LORD will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.

Isaiah 2:16

¹⁶for all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery.

Jeremiah 25:22

²²and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;

1 Kings 22:48

⁴⁸Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go, for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.

Isaiah 23:12

¹²He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”

Zechariah 9:2-4

²and Hamath, also, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise. ³Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets. ⁴Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.

Jeremiah 2:10

¹⁰For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.