The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[phil36]

Isaiah 23:11

He has stretched out his hand over the sea; he has shaken the kingdoms; the LORD has given command concerning Canaan to destroy its strongholds.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 23:12 (ESV)

And he said: “You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon; arise, cross over to Cyprus, even there you will have no rest.”

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 23:13 (ESV)

Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not; Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 23:14 (ESV)

Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 23:15 (ESV)

In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 23:16

“Take a harp; go about the city, O forgotten prostitute! Make sweet melody; sing many songs, that you may be remembered.”

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 23:17 (ESV)

At the end of seventy years, the Lord will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 23:18 (ESV)

Her merchandise and her wages will be holy to the Lord. It will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the Lord.

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 24:1


Behold, the Lord will empty the earth[a] and make it desolate,
and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

 

[Godsgirl83]

Isaiah 24:2

people and priest alike, servant and master,
maid and mistress, buyer and seller,
lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

 

[Godsgirl83]

Isaiah 24:3

The earth will be utterly laid waste
and thoroughly plundered.

 

[Godsgirl83]

Isaiah 24:4

The earth mourns and withers;
the world languishes and fades;
the exalted of the earth waste away.

 

[Godsgirl83]

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is defiled by its people;
they have transgressed the laws;
they have overstepped the decrees
and broken the everlasting covenant.

 

[Godsgirl83]

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,
and its inhabitants must bear the guilt;
the earth’s dwellers have been burned,
and only a few survive.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 24:7 (NIV)

The new wine dries up and the vine withers; all the merrymakers groan.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 24:8 (NIV)

The joyful tambourines are stilled, the noise of the revellers has stopped, the joyful harp is silent.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 24:9 (ASV)

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 24:10 (ASV)

The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 24:11 (KJV)

There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 24:12 (KJV)

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.