"And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. {pleasant...: Heb. pictures of desire}" — Isaiah 2:16

Isaiah 2:16 · KJV

“And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. {pleasant...: Heb. pictures of desire}”

— Isaiah 2:16

And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2 — Context

And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills {that are} lifted up,

And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. {pleasant...: Heb. pictures of desire}

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

And the idols he shall utterly abolish. {he...: or, shall utterly pass away}

Cross References

1 Kings 10:22

For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. {ivory: or, elephants' teeth}

Isaiah 23:1

The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

Psalms 47:7

For God {is} the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. {with: or, every one that hath}

Revelation 18:17-19

For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

1 Kings 22:48-49

{There was} then no king in Edom: a deputy {was} king.

Isaiah 60:9

Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

Revelation 18:11

And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

Numbers 33:52

Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: