Isaiah 23:8

Good News Translation

Who was it that planned to bring all this on Tyre, that imperial city, whose merchant princes were the most honored men on earth?

Cross References

Isaiah 10:8

He boasts, “Every one of my commanders is a king!

Isaiah 36:9

You are no match for even the lowest ranking Assyrian official, and yet you expect the Egyptians to send you chariots and horsemen.

Ezekiel 26:12

Your enemies will help themselves to your wealth and merchandise. They will pull down your walls and shatter your luxurious houses. They will take the stones and wood and all the rubble, and dump them into the sea.

Nahum 3:16

You produced more merchants than there are stars in the sky! But now they are gone, like locusts that spread their wings and fly away.

Zechariah 9:3

Tyre has built fortifications for herself and has piled up so much silver and gold that it is as common as dirt!

Revelation 18:23

Never again will the light of a lamp be seen in you; no more will the voices of brides and grooms be heard in you. Your merchants were the most powerful in all the world, and with your false magic you deceived all the peoples of the world!”

Revelation 18:8

Because of this, in one day she will be struck with plagues— disease, grief, and famine. And she will be burned with fire, because the Lord God, who judges her, is mighty.”