Isaiah 23:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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 fortresses.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ He stretched out His hand over the sea, He shook the kingdoms; the Lord has given a command concerning Canaan to destroy her strongholds and fortresses [Tyre, Sidon, etc.].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof.

Common English Bible

¹¹ God’s hand is extended over the sea, shaking nations. The LORD gave the command to destroy Phoenicia’s fortresses,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ He has extended his hand over the sea. He has stirred up kingdoms. The Lord has given an order against Canaan, so that he may crush its strong.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ He stretched out his hand over the sea: he troubled kingdoms. The Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones thereof.

Isaiah 23:11 Cross References

Genesis 9:25

he said, “Cursed be Canaan; lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers.”

Psalm 46:6

The nations are in an uproar; the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice; the earth melts.

Psalm 71:3

Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

Exodus 14:21

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.

Isaiah 10:6

Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 13:13

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place at the wrath of the Lord of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.

Isaiah 14:26

This is the plan that is planned concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

Isaiah 19:5

The waters of the Nile will be dried up, and the river will be parched and dry;

Isaiah 2:19

Enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from the terror of the Lord and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

Isaiah 23:10

Cross over to your own land, O ships of Tarshish; this is a harbor no more.

Isaiah 23:3

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

Isaiah 25:2

For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of foreigners is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

Isaiah 5:25

Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them; the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like refuse in the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 50:2

Why was no one there when I came? Why did no one answer when I called? Is my arm powerless to redeem? Or have I no strength to deliver? By my rebuke I dry up the sea; I make the rivers a desert, so that their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.

Jeremiah 47:7

How can it be quiet, when the Lord has given it an order? Against Ashkelon and against the seashore— there he has appointed it.

Ezekiel 26:10

His horses shall be so many that their dust shall cover you. At the noise of cavalry, wheels, and chariots your very walls shall shake when he enters your gates like those entering a breached city.

Ezekiel 26:4

They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down its towers. I will scrape its soil from it and make it a bare rock.

Ezekiel 31:16

I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the Pit, and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that were well watered, were consoled in the world below.

Nahum 1:14

The Lord has commanded concerning you: Your name shall be perpetuated no longer; from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the cast image. I will prepare your grave, for you are worthless.

Haggai 2:7

and I will shake all the nations, so that the treasure of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with splendor, says the Lord of hosts.

Zechariah 14:21

and every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and use them to boil the flesh of the sacrifice. And there shall no longer be traders in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.

Mark 11:17

He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

John 2:16

He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!”