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Isaiah 23:10
10Till your land as they do along the Nile, Daughter Tarshish, for you no longer have a harbor.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Come, people of Tarshish, sweep over the land like the flooding Nile, for Tyre is defenseless.
Context of Isaiah 23:10
8Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are renowned in the earth? 9The Lord Almighty planned it, to bring down her pride in all her splendor and to humble all who are renowned on the earth. Till your land as they do along the Nile, Daughter Tarshish, for you no longer have a harbor. 11The Lord has stretched out his hand over the sea and made its kingdoms tremble. He has given an order concerning Phoenicia that her fortresses be destroyed. 12He said, “No more of your reveling, Virgin Daughter Sidon, now crushed! “Up, 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 said, “No more of your reveling, Virgin Daughter Sidon, now crushed! “Up, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.”
- Isaiah 23:14Wail, you ships of Tarshish; your fortress is destroyed!
- 1 Samuel 28:20Immediately Saul fell full length on the ground, filled with fear because of Samuel’s words. His strength was gone, for he had eaten nothing all that day and all that night.
- Job 12:21He pours contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
- Lamentations 1:6All the splendor has departed from Daughter Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; in weakness they have fled before the pursuer.
- Haggai 2:22I will overturn royal thrones and shatter the power of the foreign kingdoms. I will overthrow chariots and their drivers; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.
- Romans 5:6You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
- Psalms 18:32It is God who arms me with strength and keeps my way secure.
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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