Isaiah 23:9
YHWH of Hosts has counseled it, || To defile the excellence of all beauty, || To make light all the honored of earth.
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10Pass through your land as a brook, || Daughter of Tarshish, || There is no longer a girdle.
Cross References
Exodus 8:4indeed, on you, and on your people, and on all your servants the frogs go up.”
Job 40:11Scatter abroad the wrath of your anger, || And see every proud one, and make him low.
Isaiah 2:11The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, || And the loftiness of men has been bowed down, || And YHWH alone has been set on high in that day.
Isaiah 2:17And the haughtiness of man has been bowed down, || And the loftiness of men humbled, || And YHWH alone has been set on high in that day.
Isaiah 5:15And the low is bowed down, and the high humbled, || And the eyes of the haughty become low,
Isaiah 10:33Behold, the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, || Is lopping a branch with violence, || And the high of stature are cut down, || And the lofty have become low,
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 →