Isaiah 23:8

New English Translation

Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?

Cross References

Isaiah 10:8

Indeed, he says: “Are not my officials all kings?

Isaiah 36:9

Certainly you will not refuse one of my master’s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.

Ezekiel 26:12

They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw into the water.

Nahum 3:16

Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.

Zechariah 9:3

Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

Revelation 18:23

Even the light from a lamp will never shine in you again! The voices of the bridegroom and his bride will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the tycoons of the world, because all the nations were deceived by your magic spells!

Revelation 18:8

For this reason, she will experience her plagues in a single day: disease, mourning, and famine, and she will be burned down with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!”