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Isaiah 2:16

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

They might be like great ships from Tarshish, filled with such wonderful cargo, but they will be brought down.

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The king also had many cargo ships that he sent out to trade things with other countries. These were Hiram’s ships. Every three years the ships would come back with a new load of gold, silver, ivory, and apes and baboons.

This is a message about Tyre: Ships traveling from Cyprus heard this message: “Cry, you ships from Tarshish! Your harbor has been destroyed.”

“And the merchants of the earth will cry and be sad for her. They will be sad because now there is no one to buy the things they sell—

The faraway lands are waiting for me. The great cargo ships are ready to sail. They are ready to bring your children from faraway lands. They will bring silver and gold with them to honor the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel. He has done wonderful things for you.

God is the King of the whole world. Sing songs of praise!

You will take the land from the people you find there. You must destroy all of their carved statues and idols. You must destroy all of their high places.

And a third of the created beings in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

At that time those proud people will fall. They will bow low to the ground, and only the Lord will stand high.

So be sad, you ships from Tarshish. Your place of safety has been destroyed.

I will put a mark on some of the people. I will send some of these saved people to the nations of Tarshish, Libya, Lud (the land of archers), Tubal, Greece, and all the faraway lands. Those people have never heard my teachings. They have never seen my Glory. So the saved people will tell the nations about my glory.

The ships from Tarshish carried the things you sold. “‘Tyre, you are like one of those cargo ships. You are on the sea, loaded with many riches.




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