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Isaiah 23:12
It is hopeless for people who live in Tyre to sail away to Cyprus to avoid the enemy’s attack. Wherever they go, they cannot avoid God’s judgement.
It is hopeless for people who live in Tyre to sail away to Cyprus to avoid the enemy’s attack. Wherever they go, they cannot avoid God’s judgement.
AND HE SAID - God said Isaiah 23:9. THOU SHALT NO MORE REJOICE - The sense is, that Tyre was soon to be destroyed. It does not mean that it should never afterward exult or rejoice, for the prophet say...
CHAPTER 23 The Burden of Tyre 1. _Tyre's great disaster (Isaiah 23:1)_ 2. _The complete overthrow (Isaiah 23:6)_ 3. _Tyre's future restoration and degradation (Isaiah 23:15)_ Tyre typifies the commer...
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, howeve...
OPPRESSED. humbled....
The third strophe, as usually explained, deals mainly with the emancipation of the Phœnician colonies from the somewhat stringent control of Tyre. But the passage presents many difficulties; and from...
_And he said_ What follows may be regarded as the "commandment" referred to in Isaiah 23:11. _O thou oppressed_(or RAVISHED) _virgin, daughter of Zidon_ The epithet "virgin" is applied to Zidon as a f...
HE STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND— We have here the latter member of the period concerning the grand projector and executor of the destruction of Tyre; where, in the 11th verse, the prophet tells us that the...
b. SHAKEN TEXT: Isaiah 23:8-14 8 Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? 9 Jehovah of hosts hat...
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 - ri...
23:12 oppressed (a-10) Or 'dishonoured.'...
OPPRESSED] or 'defiled.' Tyre was no longer a virgin citadel. PASS OVER TO CHITTIM] Flight to Cyprus would not secure safety from Assyria....
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 Mediterranea...
וַ יֹּ֕אמֶר לֹֽא ־תֹוסִ֥יפִי עֹ֖וד לַ עְלֹ֑וז
CHAPTER XVIII TYRE; OR, THE MERCENARY SPIRIT 702 B.C. Isaiah 23:1 THE task, which was laid upon the religion of Israel while Isaiah was its prophet, was the task, as we have often told ourselves, o...
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 affr...
And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed (o) virgin, (p) daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest. (o) For Tyre was never touched nor afflic...
_Daughter; colony. (Calmet) --- Oppressed. Literally, "calumniated." (Haydock)_...
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, to...
12._And he said, Thou shalt not add any more to rejoice. _(112) All this belongs to one and the same object; for, since a plain description would not have had sufficient weight, the Prophet confirms h...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...
AND HE SAID, THOU SHALT NO MORE REJOICE,.... Not meaning that she should never more rejoice, but not for a long time, as Kimchi interprets it; when her calamity should come upon her, her jovial time,...
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. Ver. 12. _Thou shalt no more rejoice._] Heb., Exu...
_He_ Namely, the Lord, mentioned in the latter part of the verse; _stretched out his hand over the sea_ That is, Tyre, called the sea, (Isaiah 23:4,) to overthrow it. _He shook_ Hebrew, הרגיז, _he mad...
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 destr...
And He said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon, Tyre and all Phoenicia being disgraced now as a result of the conquest. ARISE, PASS OVER TO CHITTIM, emigrating to...
1-14 Tyre was the mart of the nations. She was noted for mirth and diversions; and this made her loth to consider the warnings God gave by his servants. Her merchants were princes, and lived like pri...
O THOU OPPRESSED VIRGIN: so he calls her, either for her pride and beauty, and living in great ease and pleasure; or because she had hitherto never borne the yoke of a conquering enemy; though withal...
Isaiah 23:12 said H559 (H8799) rejoice H5937 (H8800) more H3254 (H8686) oppressed H6231 (H8794) virgin...
LAMENT OVER TYRE (ISAIAH 23:1). 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 parts of the...
CONTENTS: Burden of Tyre. Desolations preceding the final deliverance of Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The proud boasts of worldly nations, who bid defiance to their neighbors, will surely be...
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 sea....
_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 places...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:1 The fifth oracle concerns the judgment and redemption of Tyre. ⇐ ⇔...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 23:1 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 13:1. It is an elegy "in...
Now in chapter 23 he takes up his burden against Tyre. Tyre was, of course, a seaport town. It was the area... The people of Tyre were known as Phoenicians. And so you who are versed in your ancient h...
Deuteronomy 28:64; Ezekiel 26:13; Ezekiel 26:14; Ezekiel 27:6;...
Virgin — So he calls her, because she had hitherto never borne the yoke of a conquering enemy. Zidon — Tyre may be called the daughter of Zidon, because she was first built and possessed by a colony o...