¹ tn Heb “lift up over Tyre a lament.”

¹ sn That is, the towns located inland that were under Tyre’s rule.

² sn Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre from 585 to 571 b.c.

² sn Sidon was located 25 miles north of Tyre.

³ sn Sidon and Arvad, like Tyre, were Phoenician coastal cities.

¹ sn Tyre was located on the Mediterranean coast north of Israel.

¹ sn Tyre was a city and seaport on the coast of Phoenicia.

³ sn Tyre was a city and seaport on the coast of Phoenicia.

² tn Heb “Because of three violations of Tyre, even because of four.”

¹ tn Heb “What [are] you [doing] to me, O Tyre and Sidon?”

¹ tn Heb “for which he worked,” referring to the assault on Tyre (v. 18).

¹ tn Heb “entrances.” The plural noun may reflect the fact that Tyre had two main harbors.

¹ tn The city of Tyre is described in the following account as a merchant ship.

¹ tn Heb “they will be in pain at the report of Tyre.”

² sn The sea is personified here as a lamenting childless woman. The foreboding language anticipates the following announcement of Tyre’s demise, viewed here as a child of the sea, as it were.

² sn Ptolemais was a seaport on the coast of Palestine about 30 mi (48 km) south of Tyre.

³ sn The connection with Tyre and Sidon suggests that these were Phoenician colonies. See also Isa 23:2.

⁴ tn Heb “At the end of 70 years it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute.”

¹ tn Heb “a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre.”

³ sn The reference to “all the ships of the sea…within you” suggests that the metaphor is changing; previously Tyre had been described as a magnificent ship, but now the description shifts back to an actual city. The “ships of the sea” were within Tyre’s harbor. Verse 11 refers to “walls” and “towers” of the city.