Isaiah 23:9
Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled it, To pollute the excellency of all beauty, To make light all the honoured of earth.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
10Pass through thy land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish, there is no more a girdle.
Cross References
Exodus 8:4yea, on thee, and on thy people, and on all thy servants do the frogs go up.'
Job 40:11Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.
Isaiah 2:11The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.
Isaiah 2:17And bowed down hath been the haughtiness of man, And humbled the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.
Isaiah 5:15And bowed down is the low, and humbled the high, And the eyes of the haughty become low,
Isaiah 10:33Lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is lopping a branch with violence, And the high of stature are cut down, And the lofty are 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 →