Isaiah 23:8

Who has counseled this against Tyre, || The crowning one, whose traders [are] princes, || Her merchants—the honored of earth?

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

In Context

7Is this your exulting one? Her antiquity [is] from the days of old, || Her own feet carry her far off to sojourn.

9YHWH of Hosts has counseled it, || To defile the excellence of all beauty, || To make light all the honored of earth.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:24Indeed, all the nations have said, Why has YHWH done thus to this land? Why the heat of this great anger?

Isaiah 36:9And how do you turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, and trust on Egypt for yourself, for chariot and for horsemen?

Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus said Lord YHWH: Because your heart has been high, || And you say: I [am] a god, || I have inhabited the habitation of God, || In the heart of the seas, || And you [are] man, and not God, || And you give out your heart as the heart of God,

Zechariah 9:3And Tyre builds a bulwark for herself, || And heaps silver as dust, || And gold as mire of out-places.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 23:2-15

The Doom of Tyre. ( b. c. 718.) 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. 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I… Read the whole commentary →

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