Isaiah 23:11 - Revised Standard Version CI

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.

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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.

Isaiah 23:11 Cross References

Genesis 9:25

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

Psalm 46:6

The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.

Psalm 71:3

Be thou to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me, for thou art my rock and my fortress.

Exodus 14:21

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea 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 purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

Isaiah 19:5

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

Isaiah 2:19

And men shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

Isaiah 23:10

Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.

Isaiah 23:3

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

Isaiah 25:2

For thou hast made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of aliens 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 smote them, and the mountains quaked; and their corpses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 50:2

Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; 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 a charge? Against Ashkelon and against the seashore he has appointed it.”

Ezekiel 26:10

His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as one enters a city which has been breached.

Ezekiel 26:4

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

Ezekiel 31:16

I will make 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 drink water, will be comforted in the nether world.

Nahum 1:14

The Lord has given commandment about you: “No more shall your name be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will cut off the graven image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”

Haggai 2:7

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

Zechariah 14:21

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

Mark 11:17

And he taught, and said to them, “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

And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; you shall not make my Father's house a house of trade.”