2Be silent, you people of the island and you merchants of Sidon, whom the seafarers have enriched.


In Context

1 An oracle concerning Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish! For Tyre is destroyed and left without house or harbor. From the land of Cyprus word has come to them.

2 Be silent, you people of the island and you merchants of Sidon, whom the seafarers have enriched.

3 On the great waters came the grain of the Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre, and she became the marketplace of the nations.

4 Be ashamed, O Sidon, and you, O fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: "I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters."

Isaiah 23:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:2Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:2Be silent, you that dwell in the island: the merchants of Sidon passing over the sea, have filled thee.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:2Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:2Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle! The merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished thee.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:2Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:2Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:2Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:2Be silent, ye inhabitants of the isle, Trader of Zidon, passing the sea, they filled thee.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:2Be still, you inhabitants of the isle; you whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.