Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!
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Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!
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Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
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Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the coast-land.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 23:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 23:12 He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”
- Isaiah 16:7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.
- Isaiah 21:15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
- Isaiah 23:10 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.
- Isaiah 23:1-2 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon that pass over the sea, have replenished.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Tyre willeth other merchants to go to Cilicia, and…
Tyre willeth other merchants to go to Cilicia, and to come no more there.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 23:6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye…
Isa 23:6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
Ver. 6. Pass ye over to Tarshish.] Tyrii migrate coloni, be packing any whither, and make any shift to save your lives, Ultra Sauromatas fugite hinc, &c. To Carthage many of them went, say some; and the Septuagint; for ships of Tarshish {Isa 23:1} have ships of Carthage.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Pass ye over to Tarshish; flee from your own…
Pass ye over to Tarshish; flee from your own country to Tarsus of Cilicia, and there bewail your calamities. Or rather, as others render the place, Pass over the sea, which is oft called Tarshish; of which See Poole "Isa 23:1".
Of the isle; of Tyrus, as before, Isa 23:2.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Pass ye over to Tarshish,.... Either to Tartessus in…
Pass ye over to Tarshish,.... Either to Tartessus in Spain, or to Tarsus in Cilicia, which lay over against them, and to which they might transport themselves, families, and substance, with greater ease; or "to a province of the sea", as the Targum, any other seaport; the Septuagint says to Carthage, which was a colony of the Tyrians; and hither the Assyrian (u) historians say they did transport themselves; though Kimchi thinks this is spoken, not to the Tyrians, but to the merchants that traded with them, to go elsewhere with their merchandise, since their goods could no more be disposed of in that city as usual.
Howl, ye inhabitants of the isle: of Tyre, as in Isa 23:2 or of every isle, as Aben Ezra, which traded here, because now their commerce was at an end; so Kimchi.
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(u) Apud Hieron. in loc.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Isa 23:6-7. Pass ye over to Tarshish — Flee…
Isa 23:6-7. Pass ye over to Tarshish — Flee from your own country to Tartessus in Spain, and there bewail your calamity. Or, betake yourselves for refuge to some of the parts to which you used to traffic. The LXX. say, εις Καρχηδονα, to Carthage, which was a colony transplanted from Tyre. Howl, ye inhabitants of the isle — Of Tyre, as Isa 23:2. Is this your joyous city? — That formerly lived in so much pomp, and pleasure, and security? Whose antiquity is of ancient days — See on Isa 23:1. Tyre, though not so old as Zidon, yet certainly was of very high antiquity. Justin, in the passage above quoted, had dated the building of it at a certain number of years before the taking of Troy; but the number is lost in the present copies. Her own feet shall carry her — Whereas before, like a delicate lady, she would not set her foot to the ground, but used to be carried in stately chariots; afar off to sojourn — To seek for new habitations.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Pass ye over - That is, ye inhabitants of…
Pass ye over - That is, ye inhabitants of tyre. This is an address to Tyre, in view of her approaching destruction; and is designed to signify that when the city was destroyed, its inhabitants would flee to its colonies, and seek refuge and safety there. As Tarshish was one of its principal colonies, and as the ships employed by Tyre would naturally sail to Tarshish, the inhabitants are represented as fleeing there on the attack of Nebucbadnezzar. That the inhabitants of Tyre did fire in this manner, is expressly asserted by Jerome upon the authority of Assyrian histories which are now lost. ‘We have read,’ says he, ‘in the histories of the Assyrians, that when the Tyrians were besieged, after they saw no hope of escaping, they went on board their ships, and fled to Cartilage, or to some islands of the Ionian and AEgean Sea’ (Jerome in loc.) And again (on Ezek. 29) he says, ‘When the Tyrians saw that the works for carrying on the siege were perfected, and the foundations of the walls were shaken by the battering rams, whatever precious things in gold, silver, clothes, and various kinds of furniture the nobility had, they put them on board their ships, and carried to the islands. So that the city being taken, Nebuchadnezzar found nothing worthy of his labor.’ Diodorus (xvii. 41) relates the same thing of the Tyrians during the siege of Alexander the Great, where he says that they took their wives and children to Carthage.
Howl - Deep grief among the Orientals was usually expressed by a loud, long, and most dismal howl or shriek (see the note at Isa 15:2).
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Ye inhabitants of the isle - Of Tyre. The word ‘isle,’ however, may be taken as in Isa 20:6 (see the note on that place), in, the sense of coast, or maritime country in general, and possibly may be intended to denote Old Tyre, or the coast of Phenicia in general, though most naturally it applies to the city built on the island.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Seas. The rich Tyrians did so. (St. Jerome) ---…
Seas. The rich Tyrians did so. (St. Jerome) --- Septuagint, "to Carthage." Hebrew Tharsis, is Cilicia. (Calmet) --- Hence Nabuchodonosor did not find a sufficient reward, Ezechiel xxix. 18.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Pass . . . over--Escape from Tyre to your…
Pass . . . over--Escape from Tyre to your colonies as Tarshish (compare Isa 23:12). The Tyrians fled to Carthage and elsewhere, both at the siege under Nebuchadnezzar and that under Alexander.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 6. Tarshish — Tyre’s remote colonies, especially Tartessus, near…
6. Tarshish — Tyre’s remote colonies, especially Tartessus, near the Straits of Gibraltar. In the stress upon Tyre her people are advised to seek refuge there. The siege by Nebuchadnezzar, and still more by Alexander, was sufficient occasion for such advice.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. The second strophe commences here with a summons…
6. The second strophe commences here with a summons to the Phœnicians to betake themselves to their Spanish colony for refuge, their own country being at the mercy of the invader. So the Tyrians, when attacked by Alexander the Great, sent all those unfit for war to Carthage, another western colony. Gesenius instances also the projected emigration of the Dutch merchants to Batavia in 1672 if the independence of Holland should be overthrown.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) Pass ye over to Tarshish . . .—The…
(6) Pass ye over to Tarshish . . .—The words have the ring of a keen irony. The Tyrians are told to go to Tarshish, the extreme point of their commerce; not, as before, to bring back their wealth, but to seek safety there as exiles. No nearer asylum would give them safety. So, in the siege of Tyre by Alexander the Great, the Tyrians sent their old men, women, and children to Carthage (Diod. Sic. xvii. 41). So Layard (Nineveh, plate 71) represents enemies of the Assyrians taking refuge in ships (Cheyne). The “isle” or “coast” is, as before, Tyre, and. its neighbourhoods.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Pass ye over to Tarshish. The advice was good,…
Pass ye over to Tarshish. The advice was good, and may, perhaps, have been followed to some extent. When Sennacherib attacked Elulaeus of Sidon (B.C. 701), that monarch fled across the sea ("Records of the Past," vol. 1. p. 35), probably to Cyprus. When Alexander finally ruined Tyre, a part of the population made its escape on shipboard to Carthage (Arrian," Exp. Alex.," 2:24, An escape of the kind is represented in the Assyrian sculptures (Layard, "Monuments of Nineveh," first series, pl. 71).
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Cross over to Tarshish
Cross over to Tarshish
"Make your way to Tarshish." Tarshish was the farthest land the people of Tyre traveled to do business. It will be the only place of safety for those who escape from Tyre.
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Has this happened to you, the joyful city, whose origin is from ancient times ... to settle?
Yahweh uses a question to mock Tyre. This rhetorical questions can be translated as a statement. AT: "This has indeed happened to you who were full of joy in the ancient city of Tyre ... to settle." (See: Rhetorical Question)
the joyful city
Here "city" represents the people. AT: "the joyful people who live in the city of Tyre" (See: Metonymy)
whose feet carried her far away to foreign places to settle
Here "feet" represents the whole person. AT: "who went to distant places to live and make money" (See: Synecdoche)
her far away
Here "her" refers to the city of Tyre which represents the people of Tyre. (See: Metonymy)
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