Isaiah 23:14 meaning and explanation

Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!

Isaiah 23:14, Berean Standard Bible

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The ships of Tarshish are the great merchant vessels that carried Tyre's wealth across the Mediterranean, and the prophet pictures them returning to find their home port gone. Tyre was the dominant sea power of the day, a city whose harbor made its traders princes (verses 8 and 11).

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