Isaiah 23:8

Who has devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

7Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up?

9The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:24and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what is this great fierceness of anger?

Isaiah 36:9And how can ye then turn to the face of the satraps? They that trust on the Egyptians for horse and rider are our servants.

Ezekiel 28:2And thou, son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord; Because thy heart has been exalted, and thou hast said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet thou art man and not God, though thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God:

Zechariah 9:3And Tyre built strongholds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.

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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