Isaiah 23:10 - Exposition

Pass through thy laud as a river ; rather, overflow thy land , as the Nile . Shake off all restraint; that is, give thy desires free vent—be no longer cramped and confined by the restrictions of the metro-polls. Tartessus is addressed, as the leading colony, and perhaps the one most oppressed; and in her person all the colonies are called on to shake themselves free of the mother city. There is no more strength ; rather, there is no more a girdle ; i.e. there is nothing that need restrain yon—the power of Tyre is gone!