Lexicon :: Strong's G2281 - thalassa

against every ship of Tarshish,

and against every splendid sea vessel.

On that day they will roar over it,

like the roaring of the sea.

When one looks at the land,

there will be darkness and distress;

light will be obscured by clouds.[fn]

Nevertheless, the gloom of the distressed land will not be like that of the former times when he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali. But in the future he will bring honor to the way of the sea, to the land east of the Jordan, and to Galilee of the nations.

Israel, even if your people were as numerous

as the sand of the sea,

only a remnant of them will return.

Destruction has been decreed;

justice overflows.

And the LORD of Armies will brandish a whip against him as he did when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; and he will raise his staff over the sea as he did in Egypt.

They will not harm or destroy each other

on my entire holy mountain,

for the land will be as full

of the knowledge of the LORD

as the sea is filled with water.

But they will swoop down

on the Philistine flank to the west.

Together they will plunder the people of the east.

They will extend their power over Edom and Moab,

and the Ammonites will be their subjects.

Ah! The roar of many peoples —

they roar like the roaring of the seas.

The raging of the nations —

they rage like the rumble of rushing water.

which sends envoys by sea,

in reed vessels over the water.

Go, swift messengers,

to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,

to a people feared far and near,

a powerful nation with a strange language,[fn]

whose land is divided by rivers.

The water of the sea will dry up,

and the river will be parched and dry.

Mourn, inhabitants of the coastland,

you merchants of Sidon;

your agents have crossed the sea[fn]

Be ashamed, Sidon, the stronghold of the sea,

for the sea has spoken:

“I have not been in labor or given birth.

I have not raised young men

or brought up young women.”

He stretched out his hand over the sea;

he made kingdoms tremble.

The LORD has commanded

that the Canaanite fortresses be destroyed.

They raise their voices, they sing out;

they proclaim in the west

the majesty of the LORD.

Sing a new song to the LORD;

sing his praise from the ends of the earth,

you who go down to the sea with all that fills it,

you coasts and islands with your[fn] inhabitants.

This is what the LORD says —

who makes a way in the sea,

and a path through raging water,

If only you had paid attention to my commands.

Then your peace would have been like a river,

and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

See, these will come from far away,

from the north and from the west,[fn]

and from the land of Sinim.[fn][fn]

Why was no one there when I came?

Why was there no one to answer when I called?

Is my arm too weak to redeem?

Or do I have no power to rescue?

Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke;

I turn the rivers into a wilderness;

their fish rot because of lack of water

and die of thirst.

Wasn’t it you who dried up the sea,

the waters of the great deep,

who made the sea-bed into a road

for the redeemed to pass over?

For I am the LORD your God

who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar —

his name is the LORD of Armies.

Then you will see and be radiant,

and your heart will tremble and rejoice,[fn]

because the riches of the sea will become yours

and the wealth of the nations will come to you.