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Isaiah Chapter 23

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Isaiah

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In this chapter the prophet predicts that the kingdom of Babylon will fall, its capital Jerusalem will be desolate, and the people will be left in poverty and hunger. He also says that the land will be a place of famine and that the people will be like a broken vessel. The message is that God is bringing judgment and restoration to Israel.

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(1) The 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.
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Jeremiah 25:15Jeremiah 25:22Jeremiah 47:4Ezekiel 26:1Ezekiel 26:2Ezekiel 26:3Ezekiel 26:4Ezekiel 26:5Ezekiel 26:6Ezekiel 26:7Ezekiel 26:8Ezekiel 26:9

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Isaiah 15:1Isaiah 23:14Ezekiel 6:6II Chronicles 9:21II Chronicles 20:36Jonah 1:3

(2) Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
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Isaiah 41:1Isaiah 47:5Psalms 46:10Habakkuk 2:20Ezekiel 27:3Ezekiel 27:4Ezekiel 28:2Ezekiel 27:8Ezekiel 27:9Ezekiel 27:10Ezekiel 27:11Ezekiel 27:12

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Judges 1:31

(3) And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
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I Chronicles 13:5Jeremiah 2:18Isaiah 32:20Deuteronomy 11:10Isaiah 23:8Ezekiel 27:33Ezekiel 28:4Joel 3:5Revelation 18:11Revelation 18:12Revelation 18:13

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Exodus 7:20Jeremiah 2:18Ezekiel 47:5Genesis 15:18Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13

(4) Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
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Jeremiah 47:3Jeremiah 47:4Ezekiel 26:3Ezekiel 26:4Ezekiel 26:5Ezekiel 26:6Hosea 9:11Hosea 9:12Hosea 9:13Hosea 9:14Revelation 18:23

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Deuteronomy 22:6Lamentations 2:21

(5) As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
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Isaiah 19:16Exodus 15:14Exodus 15:15Exodus 15:16Joshua 2:9Joshua 2:10Joshua 2:11Ezekiel 26:15Ezekiel 26:16Ezekiel 26:17Ezekiel 26:18Ezekiel 26:19

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Jeremiah 20:10II Corinthians 6:8

(6) Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
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Isaiah 23:10Isaiah 23:12Isaiah 21:15Isaiah 23:1Isaiah 23:2Isaiah 16:7

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Jonah 1:3

(7) Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
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Isaiah 22:2Joshua 19:29Isaiah 47:1Isaiah 47:2Ecclesiastes 10:7

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I Samuel 12:3II Kings 8:1Philippians 3:19Ezekiel 1:7Luke 7:38

(8) Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
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Deuteronomy 29:24Deuteronomy 29:25Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 29:27Deuteronomy 29:28Jeremiah 50:44Jeremiah 50:45Revelation 18:8Ezekiel 28:2Ezekiel 28:3Ezekiel 28:4Ezekiel 28:5

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I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19Genesis 32:17Genesis 38:25Exodus 36:2Deuteronomy 8:9

(9) The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
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Isaiah 10:33Isaiah 14:24Isaiah 14:27Isaiah 46:10Isaiah 46:11Jeremiah 47:6Jeremiah 47:7Jeremiah 51:62Acts 4:28Ephesians 1:11Ephesians 3:11Isaiah 2:11

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Zechariah 1:3

(10) Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
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Isaiah 23:14I Samuel 28:20Job 12:21Lamentations 1:6Haggai 2:22Romans 5:6Psalms 18:32

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Judges 5:21Luke 12:53Genesis 15:18Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:21Joshua 12:2

(11) He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
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Isaiah 2:19Isaiah 14:16Isaiah 14:17Exodus 15:8Exodus 15:9Exodus 15:10Psalms 46:6Ezekiel 26:10Ezekiel 26:15Ezekiel 26:16Ezekiel 26:17Ezekiel 26:18

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Jeremiah 48:18Haggai 2:22Numbers 9:23I John 2:7Isaiah 28:7Nahum 3:14

(12) And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
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Isaiah 23:1Isaiah 23:7Ezekiel 26:13Ezekiel 26:14Revelation 18:22Isaiah 37:22Isaiah 47:1Isaiah 47:5Jeremiah 14:17Jeremiah 46:11Lamentations 1:15Isaiah 23:2

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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17II Kings 19:21Isaiah 37:22Isaiah 47:1

(13) Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
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Isaiah 13:19Genesis 11:28Genesis 11:31Job 1:17Habakkuk 1:6Acts 7:4Genesis 2:14Genesis 10:10Genesis 10:11Genesis 11:9II Kings 17:24II Kings 20:12

(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 shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
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Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 25:10Jeremiah 25:11Jeremiah 25:22Jeremiah 27:3Jeremiah 27:4Jeremiah 27:5Jeremiah 27:6Jeremiah 27:7Jeremiah 29:10Ezekiel 29:11Daniel 7:14

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Isaiah 23:17Psalms 47:6Ezekiel 41:12Daniel 9:24Isaiah 23:16

(16) Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
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Proverbs 7:10Proverbs 7:11Proverbs 7:12Jeremiah 30:14

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Deuteronomy 30:20Psalms 47:6Revelation 3:18Psalms 98:5Psalms 147:7Isaiah 23:15

(17) And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
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Jeremiah 29:10Zephaniah 2:7Acts 15:14Deuteronomy 23:18Ezekiel 16:31Ezekiel 22:13Ezekiel 27:6Ezekiel 27:7Ezekiel 27:8Ezekiel 27:9Ezekiel 27:10Ezekiel 27:11

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Isaiah 23:15John 15:19John 13:1Hebrews 9:26Ezekiel 33:11Romans 2:22

(18) And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
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Isaiah 60:6Isaiah 60:7II Chronicles 2:7II Chronicles 2:8II Chronicles 2:9II Chronicles 2:11II Chronicles 2:12II Chronicles 2:13II Chronicles 2:14II Chronicles 2:15II Chronicles 2:16Psalms 45:12

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Proverbs 3:14Ezekiel 27:27

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