23:4 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."
23:5 When the report reaches Egypt, They also will
be in agony at the report of Tyre.
23:6 Cross over to Tarshish; Wail, you inhabitants
of the coastland!
23:7 Is this your joyous city, Whose antiquity is
from ancient days, Whose feet carried her far off to dwell?
23:8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the
crowning city, Whose merchants are princes, Whose traders are the honorable
of the earth?
23:9 The Lord of hosts has purposed it, To bring to dishonor the pride
of all glory, To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
23:10 Overflow through your land like the River,
O daughter of Tarshish; There is no more strength.
| 23:11
He stretched out his hand over the sea,
he shook the kingdoms:
the LORD hath given a commandment against the
merchant [city], to destroy the strong holds thereof.
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
11. He--Jehovah.
kingdoms--the Phoenician cities and colonies.
the merchant city--rather, Canaan, meaning
the north of it, namely, Phoenicia.
On their coins, they call their country Canaan.
NIV 23:11 The Lord has stretched out his hand
over the sea and made its kingdoms tremble. He has given an order concerning
Phoenicia that her fortresses be destroyed.
NIV NOTES 23:11 Phoenicia
: roughly the same as modern Lebanon.
ISAIAH 23:12
23:12
And He said, "You will rejoice
no more, O you oppressed virgin daughter
of Sidon. Arise, cross over to Cyprus; There
also you will have no rest."
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
12. he--God.
rejoice--riotously ( Isa
23:7 ).
oppressed--"deflowered"; laying aside the figure
"taken by storm"; the Arabs compare a city never taken to an undefiled virgin
(compare Nah
3:5 , &c.).
daughter of Zidon--Tyre: or else, sons of Zidon,
that is, the
whole land and people of Phoenicia (see on
JF & B for Isa
23:2) [MAURER].
Chittim--Citium in Cyprus ( Isa
23:1 )
Daughter of Sidon - Phoenicia - Lebanon
23:13
Behold, the land of the Chaldeans, This people which was not; Assyria founded
it for wild beasts of the desert. They set up its towers, They raised
up its palaces, And brought it to ruin.
23:14
Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For your strength is laid waste.
23:15
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:
23:16
"Take a harp, go about the city, You forgotten harlot; Make sweet melody,
sing many songs, That you may be remembered."
23:17 And it shall be, at the end of seventy years,
that the Lord will visit Tyre. She will return to her hire, and commit fornication
with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
23:18 Her gain and her pay will be set apart for
the Lord; it will not be treasured nor laid up, for her gain will be for those
who dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for fine clothing