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Isaiah Chapter 23 verse 6 Holy Bible

ASV Isaiah 23:6

Pass ye over to Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the coast.
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BBE Isaiah 23:6

Go over to Tarshish; give cries of sorrow, O men of the sea-land.
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DARBY Isaiah 23:6

Pass over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the coast!
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KJV Isaiah 23:6

Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
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WBT Isaiah 23:6


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WEB Isaiah 23:6

Pass over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coast.
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YLT Isaiah 23:6

Pass over to Tarshish, howl, ye inhabitants of the isle,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Pass ye over to Tarshish. The advice was good, and may, perhaps, have been followed to some extent. When Sennacherib attacked Elulaeus of Sidon ( B.C. 701), that monarch fled across the sea ('Records of the Past,' vol. 1. p. 35), probably to Cyprus. When Alexander finally ruined Tyre, a part of the population made its escape on shipboard to Carthage (Arrian,' Exp. Alex.,' 2:24, ยง 8). An escape of the kind is represented in the Assyrian sculptures (Layard, 'Monuments of Nineveh,' first series, pl. 7l).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) Pass ye over to Tarshish . . .--The words have the ring of a keen irony. The Tyrians are told to go to Tarshish, the extreme point of their commerce; not, as before, to bring back their wealth, but to seek safety there as exiles. No nearer asylum would give them safety. So, in the siege of Tyre by Alexander the Great, the Tyrians sent their old men, women, and children to Carthage (Diod. Sic. xvii. 41). So Layard (Nineveh, plate 71) represents enemies of the Assyrians taking refuge in ships (Cheyne). The "isle" or "coast" is, as before, Tyre, and. its neighbourhoods.