Isaiah 23:14

14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish; your fortress is destroyed!

Isaiah 23:14 in Other Translations

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

14 Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste

14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your harbor is destroyed!

14 Wail, ships of Tarshish, your strong seaports all in ruins

14 Wail, ships of Tarshish, because your fortress is destroyed!

Isaiah 23:14 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 23:14

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish
As in ( Isaiah 23:1 ) . (See Gill on Isaiah 23:1):

for your strength is laid waste;
meaning Tyre, a strong seaport, where their ships were safe, and always found vent for their goods and merchandise; and so it was the strength and support of their country; but was now destroyed, and therefore was matter of lamentation and mourning.

Isaiah 23:14 In-Context

12 He said, “No more of your reveling, Virgin Daughter Sidon, now crushed! “Up, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.”

13 Look at the land of the Babylonians,this people that is now of no account! The Assyrians have made it a place for desert creatures; they raised up their siege towers, they stripped its fortresses bare and turned it into a ruin.

14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish; your fortress is destroyed!

15 At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

16 “Take up a harp, walk through the city, you forgotten prostitute; play the harp well, sing many a song, so that you will be remembered.”

Cross References

• 1. S 1 Kings 10:22
• 2. S Genesis 10:4; Isa 2:16 "fn"
• 3. S ver 11