Isaiah 23:4

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 ashamed, O Zidon - called on, as being the parent country of Tyre (), and here representing Phoenicia in general, to feel the shame (as it was esteemed in the East) of being now as childless as if she never had any.

I travail not, nor bring forth children - `I (no more now) travail nor bring forth,' etc. 'The strength of the sea' - i:e., the stronghold-namely, New Tyre, on a rock (as "Tyre" means) surrounded by the sea (; Ezekiel 26:14: so Venice was called 'Bride of the sea;' ).