Isaiah 23:11

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Isaiah 23:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible

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

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

11 The 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.

12 He said, “You shall rejoice no more, O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon. Get up and cross over to Cyprus— even there you will find no rest.”

13 Look 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.

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Isaiah 2:19

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

Isaiah 14:16

Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,

Isaiah 14:17

who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

Exodus 15:8

At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’

Exodus 15:10

But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Psalms 46:6

Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.

Ezekiel 26:10

His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.

Ezekiel 26:15

This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: ‘Will not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan at the slaughter in your midst?

Ezekiel 26:16

All the princes of the sea will descend from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled over you.

Ezekiel 26:17

Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men— she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!

Ezekiel 26:18

Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.”’

Ezekiel 26:19

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

Ezekiel 27:34

Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.

Ezekiel 27:35

All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.

Ezekiel 31:16

I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.

Haggai 2:7

I will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Psalms 71:3

Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.

Jeremiah 47:7

How can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland.”

Nahum 1:14

The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”

Isaiah 23:3

On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.

Hosea 12:7

A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.

Hosea 12:8

And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”

Genesis 9:25

he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

Genesis 10:15

And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

Genesis 10:16

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Genesis 10:17

the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Genesis 10:18

the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,

Genesis 10:19

and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Zechariah 14:21

Indeed, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD of Hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take some pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Hosts.

Mark 11:17

Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

John 2:16

To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”

Zechariah 9:3

Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.

Zechariah 9:4

Behold, the Lord will impoverish her and cast her wealth into the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.