Isaiah 23:17 Cross References - ISV

¹⁷ At the end of 70 years, the LORD will deal with Tyre, at which time she’ll return to her courtesan’s trade, and prostitute herself with the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.

¹⁸ Don’t bring the earnings of a female prostitute nor the income of a male prostitute into the house of the LORD your God as payment for any vow. Both of these are detestable to the LORD your God.”

¹⁰ “For this is what the LORD says: ‘When Babylon’s seventy years are completed, I’ll take note of you and will fulfill my good promises to you by bringing you back to this place.

²⁶ Then you committed immorality with your neighbors, the Egyptians, with perverted lust, and by doing so you fornicated even more, provoking me to anger.

³¹ When you built your mound on every street corner and constructed your high place at every plaza, you weren’t like a common prostitute, in that you’ve insulted the wages of a prostitute

¹³ “Watch out! I’m vehemently angry about the unjust gains that you’ve earned, and about the blood that has been shed among you.

⁶ equipped with oars made from oaks from Bashan, with ivory-inlaid cypress wood decking imported from the coastlands of Cypress, ⁷ with sails made with embroidered Egyptian linen, festooned with blue banners, and with your sun shades made with purple cloth from Cypress. ⁸ Your sailors were conscripted from Sidon and Arvad, and your officers served aboard as pilots. ⁹ The wise men and elders from Gebal accompanied you, serving as ship’s carpenters. All the maritime navies and their seaman also accompanied you to assist you in doing business internationally.”
¹⁰ Tyre’s International Makeup“Soldiers from Persia, Lud, and Libya, served in your army. They were your mighty soldiers. Their helmets and shields adorned your barracks walls, and they won battle decorations for you. ¹¹ Mercenaries from Arvad and Helech stood guard duty on your walls, while brave men manned your towers. They hung their shields all around your walls— just the right touch to perfect your interior decorating!”
¹² Tyre’s Trading Partners‘Tarshish was your business partner because of your phenomenal wealth. They traded silver, iron, tin, and lead for your merchandise. ¹³ Greece, Tubal, and Meshech bartered with you, exchanging slaves and bronze vessels for your wares. ¹⁴ Beth-togarmah traded horses, war horses, and mules in exchange for what you had to sell. ¹⁵ Men from the low country south of Edom and many of the coastlands were your markets for ivory tusks and ebony that they brought to trade with you.
¹⁶ “Aram was one of your customers because you had so much merchandise. They paid by trading turquoise, purple yarn, embroidered goods, Egyptian linen, coral, and rubies. ¹⁷ The territories of Judah and Israel were your clients, too. They traded wheat from their distribution centers, baked goods, honey, oil, and ointments for your merchandise.
¹⁸ “Because you have so much to sell and are so rich, Damascus has been your trading partner, exchanging wine from Helbon, unbleached wool, ¹⁹ and casks of wine from Izal for your wrought iron, cassia wood, and aromatic reeds.
²⁰ “Dedan traded with you, exchanging riding blankets. ²¹ Arabia, including all the princes of Kedar, came to you, shopping for lambs, rams, and goats. ²² Traders from Sheba and Raamah paid for the best of what you had to offer with all types of spices, precious stones, and gold. ²³ Haran, Canneh, Eden, merchants from Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad did business with you, ²⁴ trading garments made into the finest blue and embroidered mantels, and also multi-colored carpets, ropes, and other merchandise. ²⁵ Ocean-going fleets carried your merchandise.”
Tyre’s Coming Storm “How filled you were! How glorious you were, at home in the heart of the sea! ²⁶ But your rowers have brought you into dangerous waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the ocean! ²⁷ Your wealth, your products, your merchandise your sailors, your pilots, your tailors, your salesmen, all your mercenaries with you— your entire company with you— will fall into the midst of the sea on the day when you’re overthrown! ²⁸ When your ships’ captains cry out, the pasturelands along the coast will cry out! ²⁹ Everyone who handles an oar will abandon ship, they’ll head straight for dry land, ³⁰ and they will cry so loud you won’t be able to make yourself heard! How bitterly they’ll cry! They’ll throw dust on their heads and wallow in ashes. ³¹ They’ll shave their heads bald because of you. They’ll dress themselves in sackcloth and weep for you with deep bitterness of heart, with the most pitiful of mourning. ³² In the depth of their despair they’ll compose a lament for you. This is what they’ll say: ‘Who is like Tyre? Who is so silent in the midst of the sea?’ ³³ Your merchandise went out over the oceans to satisfy many nations; with the abundance of your wealth you enriched the kings of the earth. ³⁴ “But now it’s your time to be wrecked at the bottom of the sea! Your products and your workers have sunk, and so have you! ³⁵ Everyone who lives by the sea is appalled at your destruction. Their leaders are terrified— their faces reflect their fears! ³⁶ Traders circulate among the people, hissing at you. What a horror you’ve become! Now you will cease to exist forever and ever!”

⁷ “Now as for the merchant, deceitful balances remain in his hand, and he loves to defraud. ⁸ Ephraim claims, ‘I have become rich, I have made a fortune! Because of all my wealth, no one will find any iniquity or sin in me.’

⁷ All of her carved images will be crushed to pieces, all the earnings of her prostitution will be burned up, and I will destroy all her idols; because she collected the wages of prostitution, and to the wages of prostitution they will return.”

¹¹ Her leaders judge for the money, her priests teach only when they’re paid, and her prophets prophesy for cash. Even so, don’t they all rely on the LORD as they ask, ‘The LORD is among us, is he not? Nothing bad can possibly happen to us!’

⁴ Innumerable are the harlotries of this well-favored whore, this mistress of witchcraft, who enslaves nations through her fornication and families through her sorcery.

⁷ The survivors of Judah will find pasture on it; at twilight they will lie down in the houses of Ashkelon, for the LORD their God will visit them, restoring their prosperity.”
The Lord’s Rebuke to Moab and Ammon

¹⁴ Simeon has explained how God first showed his concern for the gentiles by taking from among them a people for his name.

³ He must not drink excessively or be a violent person, but instead be gentle. He must not be argumentative or love money.

⁸ Ministers, too, must be serious. They must not be two-faced, addicted to wine, or greedy for money.

² Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over it, not because you must but because you want to, and not greedily but eagerly, as God desires.

¹ The Vision of Babylon the GreatThen one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls came and told me, “Come, I will show you how the notorious prostitute who sits on many waters will be judged. ² The kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and those living on earth became drunk with the wine of her immorality.”
³ Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was controlled by blasphemy. It had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ The woman wore purple and scarlet clothes and was adorned with gold, gems, and pearls. In her hand she was holding a gold cup filled with detestable things and the impurities of her immorality. ⁵ On her forehead was written a secret name:
BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES
AND DETESTABLE THINGS OF THE EARTH

⁹ The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality with her and lived in luxury with her, will cry and mourn over her when they see the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. ¹⁰ Frightened by the torture that she experiences, they will stand far away and cry out, “How terrible, how terrible it is for that great city, the powerful city Babylon, because your judgment arrived in a single hour!”
¹¹ The world’s businesses cry and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo anymore— ¹² cargo of gold, silver, gems, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all articles made of ivory, all articles made of very costly wood, bronze, iron, marble, ¹³ cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, chariots, and slaves (that is, human souls)— ¹⁴ “The fruit that you crafted has abandoned you. All your dainties and your splendor are lost, and no one will ever find them again.”

² His judgments are true and just. He has condemned the notorious prostitute who corrupted the world with her immorality. He has taken revenge on her for the blood of his servants.”