Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version On the great waters came the grain of the Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre, and she became the marketplace of the nations. New Living Translation sailing over deep waters. They brought you grain from Egypt and harvests from along the Nile. You were the marketplace of the world. English Standard Version And on many waters your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations. Berean Standard Bible On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations. King James Bible And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. New King James Version And on great waters the grain of Shihor, The harvest of the River, is her revenue; And she is a marketplace for the nations. New American Standard Bible And were on many waters. The grain of the Nile, the harvest of the River was her revenue; And she was the market of nations. NASB 1995 And were on many waters. The grain of the Nile, the harvest of the River was her revenue; And she was the market of nations. NASB 1977 And were on many waters. The grain of the Nile, the harvest of the River was her revenue; And she was the market of nations. Legacy Standard Bible And were on many waters. The grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile was her revenue; And she was the nations’ gain. Amplified Bible And they were on great waters. The grain of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile River, was Tyre’s revenue; And she was the market of nations. Christian Standard Bible over deep water. Tyre’s revenue was the grain from Shihor — the harvest of the Nile. She was the merchant among the nations. Holman Christian Standard Bible on many waters. Tyre’s revenue was the grain from Shihor— the harvest of the Nile. She was the merchant among the nations. American Standard Version And on great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mart of nations. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Your cargo is in many waters, seed of the Merchant, harvest of the river; its harvest was the merchandise for the nations Brenton Septuagint Translation in great waters, a generation of merchants? as when the harvest is gathered in, so are these traders with the nations. Contemporary English Version Your merchants sailed the seas, making you wealthy by trading with nation after nation. They brought back grain that grew along the Nile. Douay-Rheims Bible The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the river is her revenue: and she is become the mart of the nations. English Revised Version And on great waters the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mart of nations. GOD'S WORD® Translation The grain of Shihor is on the Mediterranean. The harvest of the Nile River is brought to Tyre. Tyre became the marketplace for the nations. Good News Translation across the sea to buy and sell the grain that grew in Egypt and to do business with all the nations. International Standard Version and were on mighty waters. Her revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; and she became the marketplace of nations. JPS Tanakh 1917 And on great waters the seed of Shihor, The harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; And she was the mart of nations. Literal Standard Version And the seed of Sihor [is] in many waters, | Her increase [is] the harvest of the brook, | And she is a market of nations. Majority Standard Bible On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations. New American Bible over the deep waters, Whose revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, you who were the merchant among the nations. NET Bible the deep waters! Grain from the Shihor region, crops grown near the Nile she receives; she is the trade center of the nations. New Revised Standard Version and were on the mighty waters; your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations. New Heart English Bible On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations. Webster's Bible Translation And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. World English Bible On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations. Young's Literal Translation And in many waters is the seed of Sihor, The harvest of the brook is her increase, And she is a mart of nations. Additional Translations ... Context The Fall of Tyre…2Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea. 3On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations. 4Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”… Cross References Joshua 13:3 from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)--that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites; 1 Chronicles 13:5 So David assembled all Israel, from the River Shihor in Egypt to Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim. Isaiah 19:7 The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more. Jeremiah 2:18 Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates? Ezekiel 27:3 Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, 'I am perfect in beauty.' Treasury of Scripture And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. Sihor 1 Chronicles 13:5 So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim. Jeremiah 2:18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? the harvest Isaiah 32:20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass. Deuteronomy 11:10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: she is Isaiah 23:8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? Ezekiel 27:33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise. Ezekiel 28:4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: Jump to Previous Brook Grain Great Harvest Increase Market Marketplace Mart Merchant Nations Nile Revenue River Seed Shihor Sihor Trade Tyre Waters WealthJump to Next Brook Grain Great Harvest Increase Market Marketplace Mart Merchant Nations Nile Revenue River Seed Shihor Sihor Trade Tyre Waters WealthIsaiah 23 1. The miserable overthrow of Tyre15. Her restoration and unfaithfulness (3) By great waters the seed of Sihor . . .--Sihor ("the dark river") is as in Jeremiah 2:18, a Hebrew name for the Nile. The corn-trade with Egypt (Ezekiel 27:7, adds the linen-trade) was naturally a chief branch of Tyrian commerce. Practically, indeed, as the Egyptians had no timber to build ships, and, for the most part, hated the sea, their navy consisted of Ph?nicians. Tyre practically reaped the harvest that sprang from the inundation of the Nile. For "mart," read gain. The "great waters" are those of the great sea, i.e., of the Mediterranean.Verse 3. - By great waters; rather, on great waters; i.e. on the waters of the Mediterranean (cf. Psalm 107:23; Ezekiel 27:26). The Egyptian vessels conveyed the corn intended for exportation to the ports at the mouths of the Nile, where it was transhipped aboard Phoenician craft, which carried it on the open sea to the countries needing it. We never hear of the Egyptians disputing the trade of the Mediterranean with the Phoenicians and the Greeks, though they certainly had trading-vessels at times on the waters of the Red Sea. The seed of Sihor; i.e. the corn of the Nile valley. "Si-her," or rather "Shihor," is the only proper name by which the Nile is designated in the Hebrew Scriptures. It means "the dark," "the turbid," and may be compared with the modern "Bahr-el-azrak," used of the Eastern or Abyssinian Nile, and with the term" Nilus" itself, if that signifies "the dark blue stream." It occurs, as the name of the Nile, only in Joshua 13:3; 1 Chronicles 13:5; Jeremiah 2:18; and the present place. Is her revenue; i.e. "produces a portion of her annual income." And she is a man of nations (so Gesenius and Ewald). Delitzsch and Mr. Cheyne translate, "It is the gain of the nations," referring "it' to the corn which the Tyrians exported. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew On the greatרַבִּים֙ (rab·bîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 7227: Much, many, great waters וּבְמַ֤יִם (ū·ḇə·ma·yim) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen came the grain זֶ֣רַע (ze·ra‘) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity of Shihor; שִׁחֹ֔ר (ši·ḥōr) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 7883: Nile -- a stream on the border of Egypt the harvest קְצִ֥יר (qə·ṣîr) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 7105: Severed, harvest, the crop, the time, the reaper, a limb of the Nile יְא֖וֹר (yə·’ō·wr) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 2975: Nile -- a channel, a fosse, canal, shaft, the Nile, the Tigris was the revenue of Tyre; תְּבֽוּאָתָ֑הּ (tə·ḇū·’ā·ṯāh) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 8393: Product, revenue she was וַתְּהִ֖י (wat·tə·hî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be the merchant סְחַ֥ר (sə·ḥar) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 5505: An emporium, profit of the nations. גּוֹיִֽם׃ (gō·w·yim) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts Links Isaiah 23:3 NIVIsaiah 23:3 NLT Isaiah 23:3 ESV Isaiah 23:3 NASB Isaiah 23:3 KJV Isaiah 23:3 BibleApps.com Isaiah 23:3 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 23:3 Chinese Bible Isaiah 23:3 French Bible Isaiah 23:3 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 23:3 On great waters the seed (Isa Isi Is) |
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