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Be still - “struck dumb with awe.” Addressed to those already in the country, eye-witnesses of its ruin (Lam 2:10); or, in contrast to the busy din of commerce once heard in Tyre; now all is hushed and still.
isle - strictly applicable to New Tyre: in the sense coast, to the mainland city, Old Tyre (compare Isa 23:6; Isa 20:6).
Zidon - of which Tyre was a colony, planted when Zidon was conquered by the Philistines of Ascalon. Zidon means a “fishing station”; this was its beginning.
replenished - with wealth and an industrious population (Eze 27:3, Eze 27:8, Eze 27:23). Here “Zidon,” as the oldest city of Phoenicia, includes all the Phoenician towns on the strip of “coast.” Thus, Eth-baal, king of Tyre [Josephus, Antiquities, 8.3, 2], is called king of the Sidonians (1Ki 16:31); and on coins Tyre is called the metropolis of the Sidonians.