Isaiah 23:10 “Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; there is no…”

Isaiah 23:10

Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer a harbor.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.

World English Bible

Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

American Standard Version

Pass through thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.

Geneva Bible 1599

Passe through thy lande like a flood to the daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.

Darby Translation

Overflow thy land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish: there is no more restraint.

Young's Literal Translation

Pass through thy land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish, there is no more a girdle.

Bible in Basic English

Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.

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Cross references

“no more”

Isaiah 23:14 1 Samuel 28:20 Job 12:21 Lamentations 1:6 Haggai 2:22 Romans 5:6

Isaiah 23:14 · BSB

Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!

1 Samuel 28:20 · BSB

Immediately Saul fell flat on the ground, terrified by the words of Samuel. And his strength was gone, because he had not eaten anything all that day and night.

Job 12:21 · BSB

He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.

Lamentations 1:6 · BSB

All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.

Haggai 2:22 · BSB

I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.

Romans 5:6 · BSB

For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

“strength”

Psalm 18:32

Psalm 18:32 · BSB

It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way clear.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.

11The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.

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