Isaiah 23:11

New English Translation

The Lord stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook kingdoms; he gave the order to destroy Canaan’s fortresses.

Cross References

Genesis 9:25

So he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers.”

Psalm 46:6

Nations are in uproar, kingdoms are overthrown. God gives a shout, the earth dissolves.

Psalm 71:3

Be my protector and refuge, a stronghold where I can be safe! For you are my high ridge and my stronghold.

Exodus 14:21

Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the Lord drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.

Isaiah 10:6

I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.

Isaiah 13:13

So I will shake the heavens, and the earth will shake loose from its foundation, because of the fury of the Lord who commands armies, in the day he vents his raging anger.

Isaiah 14:26

This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth; my hand is ready to strike all the nations.”

Isaiah 19:5

The water of the sea will be dried up, and the river will dry up and be empty.

Isaiah 2:19

They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the Lord and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

Isaiah 23:10

Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile; there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.

Isaiah 23:3

the deep waters! Grain from the Shihor region, crops grown near the Nile she receives; she is the trade center of the nations.

Isaiah 25:2

Indeed, you have made the city into a heap of rubble, the fortified town into a heap of ruins; the fortress of foreigners is no longer a city, it will never be rebuilt.

Isaiah 5:25

So the Lord is furious with his people; he lifts his hand and strikes them. The mountains shake, and corpses lie like manure in the middle of the streets. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

Isaiah 50:2

Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.

Jeremiah 47:7

But how can it rest when I, the Lord, have given it orders? I have ordered it to attack the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast.

Ezekiel 26:10

He will cover you with the dust kicked up by his many horses. Your walls will shake from the noise of the horsemen, wheels, and chariots when he enters your gates like those who invade through a city’s broken walls.

Ezekiel 26:4

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

Ezekiel 31:16

I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I threw it down to Sheol, along with those who descend to the pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all that were well-watered, were comforted in the earth below.

Nahum 1:14

The Lord has issued a decree against you: “Your dynasty will come to an end. I will destroy the idols and images in the temples of your gods. I will desecrate your grave – because you are accursed!”

Haggai 2:7

I will also shake up all the nations, and they will offer their treasures; then I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the Lord who rules over all.

Zechariah 14:21

Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah will become holy in the sight of the Lord who rules over all, so that all who offer sacrifices may come and use some of them to boil their sacrifices in them. On that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord who rules over all.

Mark 11:17

Then he began to teach them and said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!”

John 2:16

To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”