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Isa 23:4 — Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, [even] the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, [nor] bring up virgins.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

I travail		Jer 47:3,4; Eze 26:3-6; Hsa 9:11-14; Rev 18:23

Correlating Passages

I travail

	Jer 47:3	At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong [horses], at the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to [their] children for feebleness of hands;
	Jer 47:4	Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, [and] to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
	Eze 26:3	Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
	Eze 26:4	And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
	Eze 26:5	It shall be [a place for] the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
	Eze 26:6	And her daughters which [are] in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.
	Hsa 9:11	[As for] Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
	Hsa 9:12	Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, [that there shall] not [be] a man [left]: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
	Hsa 9:13	Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, [is] planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
	Hsa 9:14	Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
	Rev 18:23	And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

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Scott, Thomas. "Isaiah 23:4," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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