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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!
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 23:2

Be still—"struck dumb with awe." Addressed to those already in the country, eye-witnesses of its ruin (Lamentations 2:10); or, in contrast to the busy din of commerce once heard in Tyre; now all is hushed and still.

isle—strictly applicable to New Tyre: in the sense coast, to the mainland city, Old Tyre (compare Isaiah 23:6; Isaiah 20:6).

Zidon—of which Tyre was a colony, planted when Zidon was conquered by the Philistines of Ascalon. Zidon means a "fishing station"; this was its beginning.

replenished—with wealth and an industrious population (Ezekiel 27:3, Ezekiel 27:8, Ezekiel 27:23). Here "Zidon," as the oldest city of Phœnicia, includes all the Phœnician towns on the strip of "coast." Thus, Eth-baal, king of Tyre [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 8.3,2], is called king of the Sidonians (I Kings 16:31); and on coins Tyre is called the metropolis of the Sidonians.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 23:2:

Isaiah 20:6
Isaiah 23:12
Ezekiel 26:10

 

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