Isaias 23:2
Be silent, you that dwell in the island: the merchants of Sidon passing over the sea, have filled thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tacete, qui habitatis in insula ; negotiatores Sidonis, transfretantes mare, repleverunt te.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τίνι ὅμοιοι γεγόνασιν οἱ ἐνοικοῦντες ἐν τῇ νήσῳ, μεταβόλοι Φοινίκης, διαπερῶντες τὴν θάλασσαν
- Hebrew (WLC)
- דֹּ֖מּוּ יֹ֣שְׁבֵי אִ֑י סֹחֵ֥ר צִיד֛וֹן עֹבֵ֥ר יָ֖ם מִלְאֽוּךְ
Haydock's commentary
Island. Tyre was originally surrounded with water. A communication with the land was made afterwards, Josue xix. 29. (Calmet) (Ezechiel xxvii.) (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Athanasius Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life, For 330. Easter-day xxiv Pharmuthi; xiii Kal. Mai; Æra Dioclet. 46; Coss. Gallicianus, Valerius Symmachus; Præfect, Magninianus; Indict. iii
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