Be ashamed, thou Sidon: for the [a]sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I have not [b]travailed, nor brought forth children, neither nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.

When the fame cometh to the Egyptians, they shall be [c]sorry, concerning the rumor of Tyre.

Go you over to [d]Tarshish: howl, ye that dwell in the isles.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:4 That is, Tyre, which was the chief part of the sea.
  2. Isaiah 23:4 I have no people left in me, and am as a barren woman that never had children.
  3. Isaiah 23:5 Because these two countries were joined in league together.
  4. Isaiah 23:6 Tyre willeth other merchants to go to Cilicia, and to come no more there.

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