“ Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste ”
“Howl ... Isaiah 23:1 . For your strength - That which has been your support and strength; to wit, Tyre (compare Ezekiel 26:15-18 ).
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your (s) strength is laid waste. (s) That is, Tyrus by whom you are enriched.
Isaiah 23. Oracle on Tyre. The date and authorship are alike very uncertain. If by Isaiah, the occasion may be the siege of Tyre by Shalmaneser about 727- 722 (p. 59), the historicity of which, how...
14. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish. He repeats what he formerly said; for the Cilicians, on account of their vicinity, constantly traded with the inhabitants of Tyre. He bids their ships howl,...
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. Howl, ye shops - The Prophet Ezekiel hath enlarged upon this part of the same subject with great force and elegance: - "Thus saith the L...
Behold the land of the Chaldeans, &c — The prophet in these words sets forth the instrumental cause of the destruction of Tyre, which should subserve the God of Israel in the execution of this...
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. Your strength is laid waste - your stronghold (cf. Ezekiel 26:15-18 ).
The Doom of Tyre Tyre was a great mercantile centre of the ancient world, and at the time of the Hebrew monarchy chief state of Phœnicia, the parent of many colonies, and mistress of the Mediterra...
CHAPTER XVIII TYRE; OR, THE MERCENARY SPIRIT 702 B.C. Isaiah 23:1-18 THE task, which was laid upon the religion of Israel while Isaiah was its prophet, was the task, as we have often told our...
The burden of Tyre opens with a graphic description of her desolation. Her harbors are closed. Her borders are desolate. The sea, which had been her highway, is abandoned, and Egypt, her ally, is aff...
Here we are brought acquainted with the means the Lord will make use of, for the overthrow of Tyre. The Chaldeans shall be the Lord's instruments; and what adds to the aggravation of Tyre's sorrow, t...
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish ,.... As in Isaiah 23:1 . Isaiah 23:1 : for your strength is laid waste ; meaning Tyre, a strong seaport, where their ships were safe, and always found vent for their...
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. Ver. 14. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish. ] He concludeth this prophecy of Tyre's downfall as he began. Isa 23:1 The inhabitants of Tarshish...
The Doom of Tyre. B. C. 718. 1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is...
Your strength; the city of Tyre, where you found safety and wealth.
Lament Over Tyre ( Isaiah 23:1-14 ). The final burden is the burden of Tyre and Sidon. These were two wealthy and powerful seaports on the Mediterranean coast from which ships went out to all part...
Isaiah 23:1 . The burden of Tyre. This was one of the most ancient cities of Phœnicia, situate on a rock, seven hundred paces from the shore, though now joined to the land by the working of the se...
The burden of Tyre The prophecy against Tyre: lessons The Tarshish of this chapter is Spain. Chittim is the island of Cyprus. The word “merchant” is the same word that is rendered in other pla...
EXPOSITION Isaiah 23:1-23 THE BURDEN OF TYRE . We hero reach the last of the "burdens"—the concluding chapter of the series of denunciatory prophecies which commenced with Isaiah 13...
The Fall of TyRev. 1. The burden of Tyre, the proud Phoenician metropolis, which withstood the attacks of several Assyrian armies and endured a siege of thirteen years by Nebuchadnezzar, but was d...
Ezekiel 27:25-30 ; Isaiah 23:1 ; Isaiah 23:6 ; Revelation 18:11-19
Your strength — The city of Tyre, where you found safety and wealth.