Isaiah 23:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

Isaiah 23:14 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 23:1
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.
Isaiah 2:16
And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
Revelation 18:11-19
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: …
Ezekiel 27:25-30
The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. …
Isaiah 23:6
Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-14)

Tyre being a sea-port town, this prophecy of its overthrow fitly begins and ends with, Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for all its business, wealth, and honour, depended upon its shipping; if that be ruined, they will be all undone. Observe, I. Tyre flourishing. This is taken notice of that her fall may appear the more dismal. 1. The merchants of Zidon, who traded at sea, had at first replenished her…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. strength--stronghold (compare Eze 26:15-18).