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The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
    (A)to defile the pompous pride of all glory,[a]
    to dishonour all the honoured of the earth.
10 Cross over your land like the Nile,
    O daughter of Tarshish;
    there is no restraint any more.
11 (B)He has stretched out his hand over the sea;
    he has shaken the kingdoms;
the Lord has given command concerning Canaan
    to destroy its strongholds.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:9 The Hebrew words for glory and hosts sound alike