Isaiah 23:14
Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!
BSB
ASV
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste.
KJV
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
"Howl," he says—he repeats it—"O you ships of Carthage, for your strength is laid waste. And it shall come to pass in that day, Tyre shall be abandoned;" and below, "but after seventy years, Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot." Behold what words the prophet employs, and how he does not avoid the baseness of words of this kind. We ourselves sometimes avoid them, not because our tongue is more chaste than theirs, but our authority inferior.
Howl, ye shops - The Prophet Ezekiel hath enlarged upon this part of the same subject with great force and elegance: - “Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning Tyre: - At the sound of thy fall, at the cry of the wounded, At the great slaughter in the midst of thee, shall not the islands tremble? And shall not all the princes of the sea descend from their thrones, And lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments?
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Isaiah 23:1This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
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Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return…
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant…
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.
against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.
all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;
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Isaiah 2:16against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.
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For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
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Isaiah 23:6Cross over to Tarshish; wail, O inhabitants of the coastland!
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He said, “You shall rejoice no more, O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon. Get up and cross over to Cyprus—even there you will find no rest.”
