Isaiah 23:10

as a river Rather: as the Nile (as R.V.). The people of Tarshish are now as free of the land they live in as the Nile is of Egypt in the time of the annual inundation.

there is no more strength Render as in R.V. there is no girdle (about thee) any more. The "girdle" (cf. Psalms 109:19) is supposed to be a symbol of the restraints hitherto imposed on the colonists by Tyre. But nowhere else is a man represented as hampered by his own girdle; the removal of it is rather a synonym for weakness (Job 12:21 the same root as here cf. Isaiah 5:27).