Parallel Verses
Amplified
Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?
New American Standard Bible
Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?
King James Version
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
Holman Bible
the bestower of crowns,
whose traders are princes,
whose merchants are the honored ones of the earth?
International Standard Version
Who has planned this against Tyre, that bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the most renowned on earth?
A Conservative Version
Who has purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are rulers, whose traders are the honored of the earth?
American Standard Version
Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?
Bible in Basic English
By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?
Darby Translation
Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the distributor of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose dealers were the honourable of the earth?
Julia Smith Translation
Who will counsel this against Tyre, encircled with a crown, whom her merchants, chiefs; her merchants the honored of the earth.
King James 2000
Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants [were] princes, her traders [the] honored ones of [the] earth?
Modern King James verseion
Who has purposed this against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are rulers, whose merchants are the weighty of the earth?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who hath devised such things upon Tyre the crown of all cities, whose merchants and Captains were the highest and principal of the world?
NET Bible
Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?
New Heart English Bible
Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?
The Emphasized Bible
Who hath purposed this, against Tyre, The bestower of crowns, - Whose merchants are princes, Her traders the honourable of the earth?
Webster
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
World English Bible
Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?
Youngs Literal Translation
Who hath counselled this against Tyre, The crowning one, whose traders are princes, Her merchants the honoured of earth?'
Themes
Business life » Miscellaneous topics relating to » Merchants
Commerce » Persons engaged in, called » Traffickers
Commerce » Persons of distinction engaged in
Tarshish » Also called tharshish » Commerce and wealth of
Tarshish » Also called tharshish » Prophecies concerning
Tyre » Inhabitants of » Mercantile men
Interlinear
Ya`ats
Cachar
Sar
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 23:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oracle Against Tyre
7
Is this your jubilant city,
Whose origin dates back to antiquity,
Whose feet used to carry her [far away] to colonize distant places?
Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?
The Lord of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty,
To bring into contempt and humiliation all the honored of the earth.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:24-28
All the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done this thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
Isaiah 10:8
For Assyria says, “Are not my princes all kings?
Isaiah 36:9
How then can you repulse [the attack of] a single
Jeremiah 50:44-45
“See, one will come up like a lion from the thicket of the Jordan against the enduring habitation [of Babylon] and its watered pastures; for in an instant I will make Babylon run from his land. I will appoint over Babylon the one whom I choose. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me [into court] and prosecute Me [for this]? Who is the [earthly] shepherd who can stand [defiantly] before Me?”
Ezekiel 28:2-6
“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
And you have said and thought, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods
In the heart of the seas’;
Yet you are [only] a man [weak, feeble, made of earth] and not God,
Though you [imagine yourself to be more than mortal and] think your mind is as [wise as] the mind of God—
Ezekiel 28:12-18
“Son of man, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for the king of Tyre and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
Revelation 18:8
For this reason in a single day her plagues (afflictions, calamities) will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire and completely consumed; for strong and powerful is the Lord God who judges her.