George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 23:2
Island. Tyre was originally surrounded with water. A communication with the land was made afterwards, Josue xix. 29. (Calmet) (Ezechiel xxvii.) (Worthington)
Island. Tyre was originally surrounded with water. A communication with the land was made afterwards, Josue xix. 29. (Calmet) (Ezechiel xxvii.) (Worthington)
Verse Isaiah 23:2. _BE STILL _- "Be silent"] Silence is a mark of grief and consternation. See Isaiah 47:5. Jeremiah has finely expressed this image: - "The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the...
BE STILL - This is the description of a city which is destroyed, where the din of commerce, and the sound of revelry is no longer heard. It is an address of the prophet to Tyre, indicating that it wou...
CHAPTER 23 The Burden of Tyre 1. _Tyre's great disaster (Isaiah 23:1)_ 2. _The complete overthrow (Isaiah 23:6)_ 3. _Tyre's future restoration and degradation (Isaiah 23:15)_ Tyre typifies the commer...
ISAIAH 23. ORACLE ON TYRE. The date and authorship are alike very uncertain. If by Isaiah, the occasion may be the siege of Tyre by Shalmaneser about 727- 722 (p. 59), the historicity of which, howeve...
ISLE. Here, Tyre itself. THOU WHOM. which. PASS OVER. cross, in trading. In verses: Isaiah 23:2; Isaiah 23:3; Isaiah 23:6; Isaiah 23:
The prophet next apostrophises the _inhabitants of the_ COAST (render so, as in ch. Isaiah 20:6), i.e. Phœnicia, calling them to _be still_, or rather DUMB, with bewilderment. _the merchants_(in Heb....
BE STILL, &C.— The second apostrophe is addressed to the islands of the Mediterranean sea, which are here collectively called _the isle,_ and which are summoned to silence and wonder. That this is the...
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 3. TYRE a. SPLENDOR TEXT: Isaiah 23:1-7 1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Ki...
Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. BE STILL - struck dumb with awe. Addressed to those already in the country, eye-wi...
23:2 isle! (e-7) Or 'of the [sea] coast,' as ver. 6....
THE DOOM OF TYRE Tyre was a great mercantile centre of the ancient world, and at the time of the Hebrew monarchy chief state of Phœnicia, the parent of many colonies, and mistress of the Mediterranea...
ISLE] 'coastland,' i.e. of Phœnicia....
Tyre and Sidon were two busy ports. They were north of Israel in what is today part of Lebanon. When David and Solomon ruled Israel, they both enjoyed good relations with the people in Tyre (see 1 Kin...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 23 All the verses in this chapter refer to both Tyre and Sidon. This is so even if on...
דֹּ֖מּוּ יֹ֣שְׁבֵי אִ֑י סֹחֵ֥ר צִידֹ֛ון עֹבֵ֥ר...
CHAPTER XVIII TYRE; OR, THE MERCENARY SPIRIT 702 B.C. Isaiah 23:1 THE task, which was laid upon the religion of Israel while Isaiah was its prophet, was the task, as we have often told ourselves, o...
The burden of Tyre opens with a graphic description of her desolation. Her harbors are closed. Her borders are desolate. The sea, which had been her highway, is abandoned, and Egypt, her ally, is affr...
Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have (f) replenished. (f) Have hunted and enriched you....
It is remarkable that this prophecy was delivered at a time when Tyre was in the height of prosperity, and resting to the full in the enjoyment of flourishing trade and merchandize. For long after thi...
2._Be silent, ye inhabitants of the islands. _This is intended to place in a more striking light the ruin of Tyre. There is a change of number in the word _island; _for although he uses the singular n...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...
BE STILL, YE INHABITANTS OF THE ISLE,.... Either the isles of Chittim, or other islands that traded with Tyre, the singular being put for the plural, called upon to grieve and mourn, because the city...
Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. Ver. 2. _Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle._] _A nundinatorio strepitu quiescite,...
_Be still, ye inhabitants of the isles_ Hebrew, דמו, _be silent;_ as persons confounded, and not knowing what to say, or as mourners use to be. Silence is a mark of grief and consternation: see Isaiah...
Be still, namely, with amazement and horror, YE INHABITANTS OF THE ISLE, those of the coast country of Phoenicia in general and of New Tyre in particular; THOU WHOM THE MERCHANTS OF ZIDON, the second...
THE FALL OF TYREV. 1. THE BURDEN OF TYRE, the proud Phoenician metropolis, which withstood the attacks of several Assyrian armies and endured a siege of thirteen years by Nebuchadnezzar, but was destr...
STILL: _ Heb._ silent...
1-14 Tyre was the mart of the nations. She was noted for mirth and diversions; and this made her loth to consider the warnings God gave by his servants. Her merchants were princes, and lived like pri...
BE STILL, Heb. _Be silent_, as one confounded, and not knowing what to say, or as mourners use to be, JOB 2 8,13 ISA 47:5; boast no more of thy wealth and power, as thou usedst to do. OF THE ISLE, Heb...
Isaiah 23:2 still H1826 (H8798) inhabitants H3427 (H8802) coastland H339 merchants H5503 (H8802) Sidon H6721 cross...
LAMENT OVER TYRE (ISAIAH 23:1). The final burden is the burden of Tyre and Sidon. These were two wealthy and powerful seaports on the Mediterranean coast from which ships went out to all parts of the...
CONTENTS: Burden of Tyre. Desolations preceding the final deliverance of Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The proud boasts of worldly nations, who bid defiance to their neighbors, will surely be...
Isaiah 23:1. _The burden of Tyre._ This was one of the most ancient cities of Phœnicia, situate on a rock, seven hundred paces from the shore, though now joined to the land by the working of the sea....
_The burden of Tyre_ THE PROPHECY AGAINST TYRE: LESSONS The Tarshish of this chapter is Spain. Chittim is the island of Cyprus. The word “merchant” is the same word that is rendered in other places...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:1 The fifth oracle concerns the judgment and redemption of Tyre. ⇐ ⇔...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 23:1 THE BURDEN OF TYRE. We hero reach the last of the "burdens"—the concluding chapter of the series of denunciatory prophecies which commenced with Isaiah 13:1. It is an elegy "in...
Now in chapter 23 he takes up his burden against Tyre. Tyre was, of course, a seaport town. It was the area... The people of Tyre were known as Phoenicians. And so you who are versed in your ancient h...
Ezekiel 27:3; Ezekiel 27:4; Ezekiel 27:8; Ezekiel 28:2; Habakkuk 2:20
Be still — Heb. be silent, boast no more of thy wealth and power. The isle — Of Tyre, which was an island, 'till Alexander joined it to the continent. The title of islands is often given by the Hebrew...