Isaiah 23:4 meaning and explanation
Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
Isaiah 23:4, Berean Standard Bible
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Isaiah speaks God's burden against Tyre, the great trading city, and its sister Sidon, calling the coastland to shame. Here the sea is personified as a mother who never labored and never raised children.
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