Isaiah 23:1

Isaiah 23:1

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!

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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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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