Isaiah 23:14

Howl, ye ships of Carthage: for your stronghold is destroyed.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

In Context

13And if thou depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.

15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.

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Cross References

Isaiah 23:1The word concerning Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Carthage; for she has perished, and men no longer arrive from the land of the Kittim: she is led captive.

Ezekiel 27:25Ships were thy merchants, in abundance, with thy trading population: and thou wast filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 23:2-15

The Doom of Tyre. ( b. c. 718.) 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 Chittim it is revealed to them. 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I… Read the whole commentary →

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