Know the Text⌕

Reading as Seek: to learn Scripture and its teachings. Same facts, warmer framing.

Read›Isaiah›Chapter 23

The Burden against Tyre

Isaiah 23:10

In 11 translations

BSB
Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer a harbor.DSS and some LXX manuscripts; MT Overflow
KJV
Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.strength: Heb. girdle
WEB
Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.
ASV
Pass through thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.
LSV
Pass through your land as a brook, || Daughter of Tarshish, || There is no longer a girdle.
YLT
Pass through thy land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish, there is no more a girdle.
DBY
Overflow thy land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish: there is no more restraint.
DRC
Pass thy land as a river, O daughter of the sea, thou hast a girdle no more.
GNV
Passe through thy lande like a flood to the daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
JPS
Overflow thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish! there is no girdle any more.
LXXE
Till thy land; for ships no more come out of Carthage.

Word by word Hebrew · tap a word

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
עִבְרִ֥י אַרְצֵ֖ךְ כַּיְאֹ֑ר בַּת־תַּרְשִׁ֕ישׁ אֵ֖ין מֵ֥זַח עֽוֹד׃
LXX-Br
Ἐργάζου τὴν γῆν σου, καὶ γὰρ πλοῖα οὐκέτι ἔρχεται ἐκ Καρχηδόνος.

Who and where

📍 Nile📍 Tarshish◆ Prophecies of Isaiah

People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 12:21He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
  • 1 Samuel 28:20Immediately Saul fell flat on the ground, terrified by the words of Samuel. And his strength was gone, because he had not eaten anything all that day and night.
  • Psalms 18:32It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way clear.
  • Isaiah 23:14Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!
  • Haggai 2:22I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.
  • Romans 5:6For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
  • Lamentations 1:6All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Report a problem

Found something wrong, unsourced or unfair? Tell us; every report is read. Please don’t include personal information.

↑