Isaiah 23:14 “Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!”

Isaiah 23:14

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

World English Bible

Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!

American Standard Version

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste.

Geneva Bible 1599

Howle yee shippes of Tarshish, for your strength is destroyed.

Darby Translation

Howl, ships of Tarshish! for your fortress is laid waste.

Young's Literal Translation

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For your strength hath been destroyed.

Bible in Basic English

Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste.

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Cross references

“Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.”

Isaiah 23:1 Isaiah 23:6 Ezekiel 27:25–30 Revelation 18:11–19

Isaiah 23:1 · BSB

This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

Isaiah 23:6 · BSB

Cross over to Tarshish; wail, O inhabitants of the coastland!

Ezekiel 27:25–30 · BSB

The ships of Tarshish carried your merchandise. And you were filled with heavy cargo in the heart of the sea.

Revelation 18:11–19 · BSB

And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo—

Also

Isaiah 2:16

Isaiah 2:16 · BSB

against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.

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

In context

13Look at the land of the Chaldeans — a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.

15At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

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