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Isaiah 23:4
Isaiah 23:4 is verse 4 of Isaiah chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
King James Version
Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
World English Bible
Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”
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Isaiah 23:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea.
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.
4 Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
5 When the report reaches Egypt, they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.
6 Cross over to Tarshish; wail, O inhabitants of the coastland!
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Jeremiah 47:3at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.
Jeremiah 47:4For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.
Ezekiel 26:3therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Ezekiel 26:4They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.
Ezekiel 26:5She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,
Ezekiel 26:6and the villages on her mainland will be slain by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’
Hosea 9:11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
Hosea 9:12Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!
Hosea 9:13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
Hosea 9:14Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
Revelation 18:23The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”