The sea was the means by which ships carried huge quantities of goods. The trade gave the merchants of Tyre and Sidon their great wealth. It was as if the sea was now acting like a person to refuse to help any more.
• Society was cruel to a married woman who had no children. Such a woman felt great shame.
Verse Isaiah 23:4. _BE THOU ASHAMED, O ZIDON_] Tyre is called Isaiah 23:12, the daughter of Sidon. "The Sidonians," says _Justin_, xviii. 3, "when their city was taken by the king of Ascalon, betook...
BE THOU ASHAMED, O ZIDON - Tyre was a colony of Sidon. Sidon is here addressed as the mother of Tyre, and is called on to lament over her daughter that was destroyed. In Isaiah 23:12, Tyre is called t...
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...
ZIDON. Was. seaport. the mother city of Phoenicia, the granary of Egypt's harvests. The Zidonians had built Tyre on. rocky island, and connected it with the mainland. I TRAVAIL NOT. I have not travai...
even _the strength of the sea_ Better as R.V. THE STRONGHOLD OF THE SEA. The fine figure of the lonely sea denying that she ever had children is somewhat marred by the introduction of this clause, as...
BE THOU ASHAMED, O ZIDON— The calamity of Tyre would more nearly affect Sidon as its mother and nurse, who had always cherished and supported her as a _daughter,_ and placed her greatest confidence in...
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 3. TYRE a. SPLENDOR TEXT: Isaiah 23:1-7 1 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 Ki...
Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins. BE THOU AS...
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...
STRENGTH] stronghold, i.e Tyre. Saying, etc.] The once busy quays are deserted, and the prophet pictures the city as a bereaved mother mourning her children....
בֹּ֣ושִׁי צִידֹ֔ון כִּֽי ־אָמַ֣ר יָ֔ם מָעֹ֥וז...
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...
Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the (h) sea hath spoken, [even] the strength of the sea, saying, I (i) travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish young men, [nor] bring up virgins. (h)...
_Strength: people who sail. Septuagint, "but the strength....replied: I," &c. Sidon will not be concerned for the fall of her rival. She alleges that she has nothing to do with Tyre. That city would n...
It is remarkable that this prophecy was delivered at a time when Tyre was in the height of prosperity, and resting to the full in the enjoyment of flourishing trade and merchandize. For long after thi...
_THE VOICE OF THE SEA_ ‘The sea hath spoken.’ Isaiah 23:4 Zidon is bidden to be ashamed because she is suddenly left childless, and this to an Eastern woman was shame indeed. The prophet, personify...
4._Be thou ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea hath spoken. _This verse is added for the purpose of heightening the picture. We have explained the reason why he speaks particularly of Sidon. He calls Tyre,...
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...
BE THOU ASHAMED, O ZIDON,.... A city near to Tyre, about twenty five miles from it; Jarchi says it was within a day's walk of it; these two cities, as they were near to each other, so they were closel...
Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, [even] the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, [nor] bring up virgins. Ver. 4....
_Be thou ashamed, O Zidon_ Tyre is called the daughter of Zidon, Isaiah 23:12, being built and first inhabited by a colony of the Zidonians. Or, rather, as Justin says, “The Zidonians, when their city...
Be thou ashamed, trembling with the disgrace of it all, O ZIDON, Phoenicia in general; FOR THE SEA HATH SPOKEN, EVEN THE STRENGTH OF THE SEA, the fortress of Tyre, which was located on an island at so...
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...
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...
BE THOU ASHAMED, O ZIDON; for Zidon was a great city near Tyre, and strongly united to her by commerce and league, and called by some the mother of Tyre, which they say was built and first inhabited b...
Isaiah 23:4 ashamed H954 (H8798) Sidon H6721 sea H3220 spoken H559 (H8804) strength H4581 sea H3220 saying...
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 sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea_ THE VOICE OF THE SEA God, through the wildly wailing winds, and loudly surging waves, has often uttered a voice of warning and of woe to cities fi...
_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...
Ezekiel 26:3; Hosea 9:11; Jeremiah 47:3; Jeremiah 47:4; Revela
Zidon — Zidon was a great city near Tyre, strongly united to her by commerce and league, and called by some the mother of Tyre, which they say, was built and first inhabited by a colony of the Sidonia...