Isaiah 23:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

and were on many waters; your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And were on great waters. The seed or grain of the Shihor, the harvest [due to the overflow] of the Nile River, was [Tyre's] revenue, and she became the merchandise of the nations.

American Standard Version (1901)

And on great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mart of nations.

Common English Bible

over the mighty waters. The grain of Shihor, the Nile’s harvest, was her income; she was the marketplace of nations.

Catholic Public Domain Version

The offspring of the Nile is in the midst of many waters. The harvest of the river is her crop. And she has become the marketplace of the nations.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the river is her revenue: and she is become the mart of the nations.

Isaiah 23:3 Cross References

1 Chronicles 13:5

So David assembled all Israel from the Shihor of Egypt to the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

Isaiah 19:7

There will be bare places by the Nile, on the brink of the Nile, and all that is sown by the Nile will dry up, be driven away, and be no more.

Isaiah 23:8

Who has purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?

Isaiah 32:20

Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the ass range free.

Jeremiah 2:18

And now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphrates?

Ezekiel 27:33

When your wares came from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with your abundant wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.

Ezekiel 28:4

by your wisdom and your understanding you have gotten wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;

Joel 3:5

For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land which you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet, like a garden of vegetables;

Joshua 13:3

(from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundry of Ekron, it is reckoned as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim,