The Folly of Reckless Speculation
Isaiah 23:8
Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes…


If ever tempted into reckless speculation, preach to your soul a sermon from the text: "As a partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not, so riches got by fraud; a man shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at the end he shall be a fool."

(T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

WEB: Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?




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