From these the people of the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, And they shall oppress Asshur and oppress Eber; So they also will come to destruction.”

‘As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea, that is, its coastline; this shall be your western border.

Deception by the Gibeonites

Now it came about when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, the lowland, and on all the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard about it,

The western border was at the Great Sea, even its coastline. This is the border around the sons of Judah according to their families.

Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages, as far as the brook of Egypt and the Great Sea, even its coastline.

Mordecai’s Greatness

Now King Ahasuerus imposed a tax on the land and the coastlands of the sea.

So the inhabitants of this coastland will say on that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be saved from the king of Assyria; and how are we ourselves to escape?’”

Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland, You merchants of Sidon; Your messengers crossed the sea

Pass over to Tarshish; Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland.

Therefore glorify the Lord in the east, The name of the Lord, the God of Israel, In the coastlands of the sea.

Israel Encouraged

“Listen to Me in silence, you coastlands, And let the peoples gain new strength; Let them come forward, then let them speak; Let’s come together for judgment.

The coastlands have seen and are afraid; The ends of the earth tremble; They have approached and have come.

He will not be disheartened or crushed Until He has established justice on the earth; And the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law.”

Let them give glory to the Lord And declare His praise in the coastlands.

I will lay waste the mountains and hills And wither all their vegetation; I will turn the rivers into coastlands And dry up the ponds.

My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth, And My arms will judge the peoples; The coastlands will wait for Me, And they will wait expectantly for My arm.

According to their deeds, so will He repay: Wrath to His adversaries, retribution to His enemies; To the coastlands He will deal retribution.

Certainly the coastlands will wait for Me; And the ships of Tarshish will come first, To bring your sons from afar, Their silver and their gold with them, For the name of the Lord your God, And for the Holy One of Israel because He has glorified you.

And I will put a sign among them and send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal, and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard of My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations.

For cross to the coastlands of Kittim and see, And send to Kedar and observe closely, And see if there has been anything like this!

and to all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea;

Hear the word of the Lord, you nations, And declare it in the coastlands far away, And say, “He who scattered Israel will gather him, And He will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.”

Because of the day that is coming To destroy all the Philistines, To eliminate from Tyre and Sidon Every surviving ally; For the Lord is going to destroy the Philistines, The remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

The Lord God says this to Tyre: “Will the coastlands not shake from the sound of your downfall when the wounded groan, when the slaughter takes place in your midst?