Isaiah 23:4

Isa 23:4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, [even] the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, [nor] bring up virgins.

Ver. 4. Be ashamed, O Zidon, ] sc., Of Tyre, thy daughter and confederate.

For the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea. ] Or, The seaport. By the sea and seaport we are to understand Tyre, who sat in the sea, as now Venice doth, and sovereigned it.

I travail not, nor bring forth children. ] I send forth no colonies, as sometimes I have done. Pliny saith of Tyre, Olim partu clara urbibus genitis, Lepti, Utica, Carthagine, etiam Gadibus extra orbem conditis. a But now it was past that time of day with her.

a Plin., lib. v. cap. 19.