Isaiah 23:11

Isaiah 23:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
• New International Version (NIV)The Lord has stretched out his hand over the sea and made its kingdoms tremble. He has given an order concerning Phoenicia that her fortresses be destroyed.
• English Standard Version (ESV)He has stretched out his hand over the sea; he has shaken the kingdoms; the Lord has given command concerning Canaan to destroy its strongholds.
• New King James Version (NKJV)He stretched out His hand over the sea, He shook the kingdoms; The Lord has given a commandment against Canaan To destroy its strongholds.

Context of Isaiah 23:11

9The Lord of Armies planned it, to desecrate all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the honored ones of the earth. 10Overflow your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer anything to restrain you. He stretched out his hand over the sea; he made kingdoms tremble. The Lord has commanded that the Canaanite fortresses be destroyed. 12He said, “You will not celebrate anymore, ravished young woman, daughter of Sidon. Get up and cross over to Cyprus — even there you will have no rest!” 13Look at the land of the Chaldeans — a people who no longer exist. Assyria destined it for desert creatures. They set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They made it a ruin.

Isaiah 23:11 word by word

יָדוֹ֙ נָטָ֣ה עַל־הַיָּ֔ם הִרְגִּ֖יז מַמְלָכ֑וֹת יְהוָה֙ צִוָּ֣ה אֶל־כְּנַ֔עַן לַשְׁמִ֖ד מָעֻזְנֶֽיהָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• He stretched outנָטָהnâţâh · to stretchH5186
• his handיָדyâd · handH3027
• over the seaיָםyâm · seaH3220
• he shookרָגַזrâgaz · to trembleH7264
• the kingdomsמַמְלָכָהmamlâkâh · kingdomH4467
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• hath given a commandmentצָוָהtsâvâh · to commandH6680
• against the merchantכְּנַ֫עַןkena‛an · CanaanH3667
• to destroyשָׁמַדshâmad · to destroyH8045
• the strongמָעוֹזmâ‛ôz mâ‛ûz mâ‛ôz mâ‛ûz · securityH4581

Cross-references for Isaiah 23:11

• Isaiah 2:19People will go into caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the Lord and from his majestic splendor, when he rises to terrify the earth.
• Isaiah 14:16Those who see you will stare at you; they will look closely at you: “Is this the man who caused the earth to tremble, who shook the kingdoms,
• Exodus 15:8The water heaped up at the blast from your nostrils; the currents stood firm like a dam. The watery depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
• Psalms 46:6Nations rage, kingdoms topple; the earth melts when he lifts his voice.
• Ezekiel 26:10His horses will be so numerous that their dust will cover you. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.
• Ezekiel 27:34Now you are wrecked by the sea in the depths of the waters; your goods and the people within you have gone down.
• Ezekiel 31:16I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I threw it down to Sheol to be with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were comforted in the underworld.
• Haggai 2:7I will shake all the nations so that the treasures of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,” says the Lord of Armies.
• Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will command him to go against a people destined for my rage, to take spoils, to plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
• Psalms 71:3Be a rock of refuge for me, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and fortress.
• Jeremiah 47:7How can it rest when the Lord has given it a command? He has assigned it against Ashkelon and the shore of the sea.
• Nahum 1:14The Lord has issued an order concerning you: There will be no offspring to carry on your name. I will eliminate the carved idol and cast image from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.
• Isaiah 23:3over deep water. Tyre’s revenue was the grain from Shihor — the harvest of the Nile. She was the merchant among the nations.
• Hosea 12:7A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.
• Genesis 9:25he said: Canaan is cursed. He will be the lowest of slaves to his brothers.
• Genesis 10:15Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,

Commentaries on Isaiah 23:11

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11He stretched out his hand - That is, Yahweh (see Isaiah 23:9). To stretch out the hand is indicative of punishment (see the notes at Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 9:12), and means that God has resolved to inflict exemplary punishment on Tyre and its dependent colonies. Over the sea - That is, over the sea coast of Phenicia; or over the cities that were built on the coast. This alludes to the fact that Nebuchadnezzar would lay siege to these cities, and would ravage…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11Phoenicia was the region north of Israel. Tyre and Sidon were its main cities.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. He--Jehovah. kingdoms--the Phoenician cities and colonies. the merchant city--rather, Canaan, meaning the north of it, namely, Phoenicia. On their coins, they call their country Canaan.Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 23:11

• Cities
• Hand
• Tarshish

In the dictionaries

• the sea, the Great Sea, the western sea
• Canaan; Canaanites
• Commerce
• Evil
• Isaiah
• Trade
• Cyprus
• Phoenicia, Syrophoenician

Commentaries on Isaiah 23

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings