Isa 23:4 | TNotes | STEP | 23:4 Part of the great port city of Tyre was on an island. The island city was a fortress of the sea , but it fell in 332 BC . • I am childless; I have no sons or daughters: This metaphor was a judgment on Tyre’s colonial ports around the Mediterranean Sea. In the ancient world, to reach old age without having children was considered a terrible fate (see 49:21 ; 54:1 ).

‏ Isaiah 23:4

23:4 ^a Part of the great port city of Tyre was on an island. The island city was a fortress of the sea, but it fell in 332 BC.

• I am childless; I have no sons or daughters: This metaphor was a judgment on Tyre’s colonial ports around the Mediterranean Sea. In the ancient world, to reach old age without having children was considered a terrible fate (see 49:21 ^b; 54:1 ^c).