Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Isaiah 23:10 in context
Isaiah 23:7–13
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Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?
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Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
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The LORD of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
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Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.
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He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. The LORD has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.
12
He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”
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Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.
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