“The LORD of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Isaiah 23 contains 18 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.