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Isaiah 23:10
10Overflow your land like [the overflow of] the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; There is no more restraint [on you to make you pay tribute to Tyre].
Isaiah 23:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
- New International Version (NIV)Till your land as they do along the Nile, Daughter Tarshish, for you no longer have a harbor.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Cross over your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint anymore.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Overflow through your land like the River, O daughter of Tarshish; There is no more strength.
Context of Isaiah 23:10
8Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth? 9The Lord of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty, To bring into contempt and humiliation all the honored of the earth. Overflow your land like [the overflow of] the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; There is no more restraint [on you to make you pay tribute to Tyre]. 11He has stretched out His hand over the sea, He has shaken the kingdoms; The Lord has given a command concerning Canaan to destroy her strongholds and her fortresses [like Tyre and Sidon]. 12He has said, “You shall never again exult [in triumph], O crushed Virgin Daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.”
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עִבְרִ֥י אַרְצֵ֖ךְ כַּיְאֹ֑ר בַּת־תַּרְשִׁ֕ישׁ אֵ֖ין מֵ֥זַח עֽוֹד׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 23:10
- Isaiah 23:12He has said, “You shall never again exult [in triumph], O crushed Virgin Daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.”
- Isaiah 23:14Wail, O ships of Tarshish, For your stronghold [of Tyre] is destroyed.
- 1 Samuel 28:20Then Saul immediately fell full length on the earth [floor of the medium’s house], and was very afraid because of Samuel’s words; and he was thoroughly exhausted because he had not eaten all day and all night.
- Job 12:21He pours contempt on princes and nobles And loosens the belt of the strong [disabling them].
- Lamentations 1:6All her beauty and majesty Have departed from the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem). Her princes have become like deer That have found no pasture; They have fled without strength Before the pursuer.
- Haggai 2:22I will [in the distant future] overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the [ungodly] nations; and I will overthrow the chariots and those who ride in them, and the horses and their riders will go down, every one by the sword of his brother [annihilating one another].
- Romans 5:6While we were still helpless [powerless to provide for our salvation], at the right time Christ died [as a substitute] for the ungodly.
- Psalms 18:32The God who encircles me with strength And makes my way blameless?
Commentaries on Isaiah 23:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10O daughter of Tarshish - Tyre is called the daughter of Tarshish; perhaps because, Tyre being ruined, Tarshish was become the superior city, and might be considered as the metropolis of the Tyrian people; or rather because of the close connection and perpetual intercourse between them, according to that latitude of signification in which the Hebrews use the words son and daughter to express any sort of conjunction and dependence whatever. מזח mezach, a…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Pass through thy land as a river - This verse has been very variously understood. Vitringa supposes that it means that all that held the city together - its fortifications, walls, etc., would be laid waste, and that as a river flows on without obstruction, so the inhabitants would be scattered far and near. Everything, says he, would be leveled, and the field would not be distinguishable from the city. Grotius thus renders it: Pass to some one of thy…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10Cultivate your land like the Nile: This difficult phrase means either: that the sailors returning from Tarshish were invited to loot the ruined Tyre; or that the people of Tarshish had to return to farming to earn a living, since Tyre was destroyed and trading was no longer possible.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. a river--Hebrew, "the river," namely, Nile. daughter of Tarshish--Tyre and its inhabitants (Is 1:8), about henceforth, owing to the ruin of Tyre, to become inhabitants of its colony, Tartessus: they would pour forth from Tyre, as waters flow on when the barriers are removed [Lowth]. Rather, Tarshish, or Tartessus and its inhabitants, as the phrase usually means: they had been kept in hard bondage, working in silver and lead mines near Tarshish, by the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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