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Isaiah 23:18 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to the LORD. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing. "

Isaiah 23:18

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16 Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.

17 It will happen after the end of seventy years that the LORD will visit Tyre. She will return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.

18 Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to the LORD. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

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Isaiah 23:1

"The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them."

Isaiah 23:2

"Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon that pass over the sea have replenished."

Isaiah 23:3

"On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations."

Isaiah 23:4

"Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”"

Isaiah 23:5

"When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre."

Isaiah 23:6

"Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!"

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