Isaiah 23:17 Cross References - BBE

¹⁷ And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

¹⁸ Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.

¹⁰ For this is what the Lord has said: When seventy years are ended for Babylon, I will have pity on you and give effect to my good purpose for you, causing you to come back to this place.

²⁶ And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.

³¹ For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.

¹³ See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.

⁶ Of oak-trees from Bashan they have made your driving blades; they have made your floors of ivory and boxwood from the sea-lands of Kittim. ⁷ The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade. ⁸ The people of Zidon and Arvad were your boatmen; the wise men of Zemer were in you; they were guiding your ships; ⁹ The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods. ¹⁰ Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, hanging up their body-covers and head-dresses of war in you: they gave you your glory. ¹¹ The men of Arvad in your army were on your walls, and were watchmen in your towers, hanging up their arms on your walls round about; they made you completely beautiful. ¹² Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods. ¹³ Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave living men and brass vessels for your goods. ¹⁴ The people of Togarmah gave horses and war-horses and transport beasts for your goods. ¹⁵ The men of Rodan were your traders: a great number of sea-lands did business with you: they gave you horns of ivory and ebony as an offering. ¹⁶ Edom did business with you because of the great number of things which you made; they gave emeralds, purple, and needlework, and the best linen and coral and rubies for your goods. ¹⁷ Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave grain of Minnith and sweet cakes and honey and oil and perfume for your goods. ¹⁸ Damascus did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth, with wine of Helbon and white wool. ¹⁹ (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) for your goods: they gave polished iron and spices for your goods. ²⁰ Dedan did trade with you in cloths for the backs of horses. ²¹ Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar did business with you; in lambs and sheep and goats, in these they did business with you. ²² The traders of Sheba and Raamah did trade with you; they gave the best of all sorts of spices and all sorts of stones of great price and gold for your goods. ²³ Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Asshur and all the Medes: ²⁴ These were your traders in beautiful robes, in rolls of blue and needlework, and in chests of coloured cloth, corded with cords and made of cedar-wood, in them they did trade with you. ²⁵ Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas. ²⁶ Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas. ²⁷ Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall. ²⁸ At the sound of the cry of your ships' guides, the boards of the ship will be shaking. ²⁹ And all the boatmen, the seamen and those who are expert at guiding a ship through the sea, will come down from their ships and take their places on the land; ³⁰ And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust: ³¹ And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow. ³² And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea? ³³ When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods. ³⁴ Now that you are broken by the seas in the deep waters, your goods and all your people will go down with you. ³⁵ All the people of the sea-lands are overcome with wonder at you, and their kings are full of fear, their faces are troubled. ³⁶ Those who do business among the peoples make sounds of surprise at you; you have become a thing of fear, you have come to an end for ever.

⁷ As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways. ⁸ And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.

⁷ And all her pictured images will be hammered into bits, and all the payments for her loose ways will be burned with fire, and all the images of her gods I will make waste: for with the price of a loose woman she got them together, and as the price of a loose woman will they be given back.

¹¹ Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

⁴ Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.

⁷ The land by the sea will be for the rest of the children of Judah; by the sea they will give their flocks food: in the houses of Ashkelon they will take their rest in the evening; for the Lord their God will take them in hand and their fate will be changed.

¹⁴ Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.

³ Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;

⁸ Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world;

² Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;

¹ And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels came and said to me, Come here, so that you may see the judging of the evil woman who is seated on the great waters; ² With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires. ³ And he took me away in the Spirit into a waste land: and I saw a woman seated on a bright red beast, full of evil names, having seven heads and ten horns, ⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and bright red, with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels; and in her hand was a gold cup full of evil things and her unclean desires; ⁵ And on her brow was a name, SECRET, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE EVIL WOMEN AND OF THE UNCLEAN THINGS OF THE EARTH.

⁹ And the kings of the earth, who made themselves unclean with her, and in her company gave themselves up to evil, will be weeping and crying over her, when they see the smoke of her burning, ¹⁰ Watching from far away, for fear of her punishment, saying, Sorrow, sorrow for Babylon, the great town, the strong town! for in one hour you have been judged. ¹¹ And the traders of the earth are weeping and crying over her, because no man has any more desire for their goods, ¹² Gold, and silver, and stones of great price, and jewels, and delicate linen, and robes of purple and silk and red; and perfumed wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of fair wood, and of brass, and iron, and stone; ¹³ And sweet-smelling plants, and perfumes, and wine, and oil, and well crushed grain, and cattle and sheep; and horses and carriages and servants; and souls of men. ¹⁴ And the fruit of your soul's desire has gone from you, and all things delicate and shining have come to an end and will never again be seen.

² For true and upright are his decisions; for by him has the evil woman been judged, who made the earth unclean with the sins of her body; and he has given her punishment for the blood of his servants.