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Isaiah 23:2-3
New International Version
Isaiah 23:2-3
New International Version
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- Isaiah 23:3 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls Sidon, / who cross over the sea; / your envoys 3 are on the great waters. / The grain of the Shihor, / the harvest of the Nile,
Isaiah 23:2-3
English Standard Version
Isaiah 23:2-3
English Standard Version
2 Be still, O inhabitants of the coast;
the merchants of (A)Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you.
3 And on many waters
your revenue was the grain of Shihor,
the harvest of the Nile;
you were (B)the merchant of the nations.
Isaiah 23:2-3
Good News Translation
Isaiah 23:2-3
Good News Translation
2 Wail, you merchants of Sidon! You sent agents 3 across the sea to buy and sell the grain that grew in Egypt and to do business with all the nations.
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Isaiah 23:2-3
1599 Geneva Bible
Isaiah 23:2-3
1599 Geneva Bible
2 Be still, ye that dwell in the isles: the merchants of Sidon, and such as pass over the sea, have [a]replenished thee.
3 The [b]seed of Nile growing by the abundance of waters, and the harvest of the river was her revenues, and she was a mart of the nations.
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- Isaiah 23:2 Have haunteth thee, and enriched thee.
- Isaiah 23:3 Meaning, the corn of Egypt, which was fed by the overflowing of the Nile.
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