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Isaiah 23:6
Contemporary English Version
Isaiah 23:6
Contemporary English Version
6 All of you along the coast
had better cry and sail
far across the ocean.[a]
Footnotes
- 23.6 far across the ocean: The Hebrew text has “to Tarshish,” probably meaning a long distance.
Isaiah 20:6
Contemporary English Version
Isaiah 20:6
Contemporary English Version
6 When this happens, the people who live along the coast[a] will say, “Look what happened to them! We ran to them for safety, hoping they would protect us from the king of Assyria. But now, there is no escape for us.”
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- 20.6 people … coast: Probably the Philistines.
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