Isaiah 23
1 The miserable overthrow of Tyre.
15 Her restoration and whoredoms.
message <04853> [A.M. 3289. B.C. 715. burden.]
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 Pal‘ 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.
Wail <03213> [Howl.]
ships <0591> [ye ships.]
devastated <07703> [for it is.]
land <0776> [the land.]
Lament <01826> [still. Heb. silent.]
coast <0339> [the isle.]
merchants <05503> [the merchants.]
Shihor <07883> [Sihor.]
crops <07105> [the harvest.]
trade center <05505> [she is.]
labor <02342> [I travail.]
news ........... happened <08088> [at the.]
shaken <02342> [so shall.]
Travel <05674> [Pass.]
Wail <03213> [howl.]
boisterous <05947> [your.]
origins <06927> [whose.]
feet <07272> [her own.]
distant land <07350> [afar off. Heb. from afar off.]
planned <03289> [Who hath.]
royal .... merchants <05849> [the crowning.]
traders <05503> [merchants.]
<03068> [Lord.]
it ... dishonor <02490> [to stain. Heb. to pollute.]
humiliate <07043> [bring.]
Daughter <01323> [O daughter.]
marketplace <04206> [no more.]
marketplace <04206> [strength. Heb. girdle.]
stretched out <05186> [stretched.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
destroy Canaan's <03667 08045> [against the merchant city. or, concerning a merchantman.]
[the merchant city. Heb. Canaan.]
fortresses <04581> [strong holds. or, strengths.]
<03254> [Thou shalt.]
oppressed <06231> [thou oppressed.]
daughter <01323> [daughter.]
"The Sidonians," says Justin, "when their city was taken by the king of Ascalon, betook themselves to their ships; and landed and built Tyre;" Sidon was therefore the mother city.
travel <05674> [pass.]
relief <05117> [there also.]
land <0776> [land.]
Assyrians <0804> [the Assyrian.]
wild animals <06728> [for them.]
turned <07760> [and he.]
Tyre .... forgotten .................. Tyre <06865 07911> [Tyre shall.]
Tyre ..................... Tyre .......... prostitute ..... song <06865 07892 02181> [shall Tyre sing as an harlot. Heb. it shall be unto Tyre as the song of an harlot.]
revive <06485> [visit.]
again <07725> [and she shall.]
<02181> [shall commit.]
profits ..................... profits <05504> [her merchandise.]
stored up <0686> [it shall.]
live <03427> [for them.]
beautiful <06266> [durable. Heb. old.]
