Isaiah 23:1
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.
Note Or Wail, O fleet of trading ships; also in verse 14
Note Hebrew Kittim; also in verse 12
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- burden
- A.M. 3289. B.C. 715. Tyre, whose destruction by Nebuchadnezzar is here foretold, was a city of Phoenicia, on the shore of the Mediterranean, twenty-four miles south of Sidon, and thirty-two north of Accho or Ptolemais, according to the Antonine and Jerusalem Itineraries, about lat. 33 degrees 18' N. long. 35 degrees 10' E. There were two cities of this name; one on the continent called Palæ Tyrus, or Old Tyre, according to Strabo, thirty stadia south of the other, which was situated on an island, not above 700 paces from the main land, says Pliny. Old Tyre was taken by Nebuchadnezzar, after a siege of thirteen years, B.C. 573, which he so utterly destroyed, that it never afterwards rose higher than a village. But previous to this, the inhabitants had removed their effects to the island which afterwards became so famous by the name of Tyre, though now consisting only of about 800 dwellings.
- Jeremiah 25:15, 22; Jeremiah 47:4; Ezekiel 26:1; Joel 3:4–8; Amos 1:9, 10; Zechariah 9:2, 4
- Howl
- Isaiah 15:2, 8; Revelation 18:17–19
- ye ships
- Isaiah 2:16; Isaiah 60:9; 1 Kings 22:48; 2 Chronicles 9:21; Psalm 48:7; Ezekiel 27:25
- for it is
- Isaiah 15:1; Jeremiah 25:10, 11; Revelation 18:22, 23
- the land
- Isaiah 23:12; Numbers 24:24; Jeremiah 2:10; Ezekiel 27:6; Daniel 11:30