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Isaiah 23:10 Explained in Context

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Verse 10. Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.

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Role in This Section

The oracle concerning Zion and the nations states or reports “Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish” at Isaiah 23:10 as a specific part of “Tyre's Trade Network Laments Its Fall.”

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  • Isaiah 23:1–14

Read Isaiah 23:10 inside Isaiah 23:1–14. The oracle concerning Zion and the nations states or reports “Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish” at Isaiah 23:10 as a specific part of “Tyre's Trade Network Laments Its Fall.” The complete unit establishes: Ships, merchants, Sidon, Egypt, Tarshish, and the sea react as the proud commercial city loses harbor, beauty, and imperial reach.

Why It Needs Context

The oracle concerning Zion and the nations states or reports “Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish” at Isaiah 23:10 as a specific part of “Tyre's Trade Network Laments Its Fall.” Its force depends on the complete movement and outcome of Isaiah 23:1–14; the isolated line is connective rather than a complete teaching claim.

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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.

Exact location: Isaiah 23:1–14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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hebrew text and morphology

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah

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Open Scriptures, release 2.2

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 23:1–14 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked

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