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Proclamation Against Tyre

1 The aburden against Tyre.
Wail, you ships of Tarshish!
For it is laid waste,
So that there is no house, no harbor;
From the land of1 Cyprus it is revealed to them. 
2 Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You merchants of Sidon,
1Whom those who cross the sea have filled. 
3 And on great waters the grain of Shihor,
The harvest of1 the River, is her revenue;
And ashe is a marketplace for the nations. 
4 Be ashamed, O Sidon;
For the sea has spoken,
The strength of the sea, saying,
“I do not labor, nor bring forth children;
Neither do I rear young men,
Nor bring up virgins.”
5 aWhen the report reaches Egypt,
They also will be in agony at the report of Tyre. 
6 Cross over to Tarshish;
Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland!
7 Is this your ajoyous city,
Whose antiquity is from ancient days,
Whose feet carried her far off to dwell? 
8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, athe crowning city,
Whose merchants are princes,
Whose traders are the honorable of the earth? 
9 The Lord of hosts has apurposed it,
To1 bring to dishonor the bpride of all glory,
To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. 
10 Overflow through your land like1 the River,
O daughter of Tarshish;
There is no more1 strength. 
11 He stretched out His hand over the sea,
He shook the kingdoms;
The Lord has given a commandment aagainst Canaan
To destroy its strongholds. 
12 And He said, “You will rejoice no more,
O you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon.
Arise, across over to Cyprus;
There also you will have no rest.” 
13 Behold, the land of the aChaldeans,
This people which was not;
Assyria founded it for bwild beasts of the desert.
They set up its towers,
They raised up its palaces,
And brought it to ruin. 
14 aWail, you ships of Tarshish!
For your strength is laid waste.  
15 Now it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
16 “Take a harp, go about the city,
You forgotten harlot;
Make sweet melody, sing many songs,
That you may be remembered.”
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 23:1

PROPHECY RESPECTING TYRE. (Isa. 23:1-18)

Tyre—Hebrew, Tsur, that is, "Rock."

ships of Tarshish—ships of Tyre returning from their voyage to Tarshish, or Tartessus in Spain, with which the Phœnicians had much commerce (Ezekiel 27:12-25). "Ships of Tarshish" is a phrase also used of large and distant-voyaging merchant vessels (Isaiah 2:16; I Kings 10:22; Psalms 48:7).

no house—namely, left; such was the case as to Old Tyre, after Nebuchadnezzar's siege.

no entering—There is no house to enter (Isaiah 24:10) [G. V. SMITH]. Or, Tyre is so laid waste, that there is no possibility of entering the harbor [BARNES]; which is appropriate to the previous "ships."

Chittim—Cyprus, of which the cities, including Citium in the south (whence came "Chittim"), were mostly Phœnician (Ezekiel 27:6). The ships from Tarshish on their way to Tyre learn the tidings ("it is revealed to them") of the downfall of Tyre. At a later period Chittim denoted the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean (Daniel 11:30).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 23:1:

Psalms 83:4
Isaiah 23:12
Isaiah 60:9
Jeremiah 2:10

 

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