And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
And he said. "He," God.
No more rejoice - riotously (Isaiah 23:7).
O thou oppressed virgin - `deflowered virgin (Lowth): laying aside the figure, thou city taken by storm. The Arabs compare a city never taken to an undefiled virgin, (cf. Nahum 3:5, etc.)
Daughter of Zidon - Tyre; or else, sons of Zidon; i:e., the whole land and people of Phoenicia (note, Isaiah 23:2) (Maurer).
Chittim - Citium in Cyprus (Isaiah 23:1).
There also shalt thou have no rest - thy colonies, having been harshly treated by thee, will now repay thee in kind (note, Isaiah 23:10). But Vitringa refers it to the calamities which befell the Tyrians in their settlements subsequently-namely, Sicily, Corcyra, Carthage, and Spain, all flowing from the original curse of Noah against the posterity of Canaan (Genesis 9:25-27).