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Isaiah 23:11

Western Saints

Jerome

He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled the kingdoms. Who stretched out his hand? Without a doubt, based on the context of the words themselves, it is God, about whom he said above: the Lord of hosts has planned this, to take away the pride of all glory. He therefore stretched out his hand over all the seas, signifying the world and its inhabitants, and troubled all the nations, among which, even you, Tyre, were troubled, whether it be over the sea, on which you are specifically situated.

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Thomas Aquinas

The Lord has given a charge. Here he threatens destruction. And first, the scourge of persecution; second, he foretells the mourning of compassion: howl (Isa 23:14); third, he designates the time of destruction: and it shall come to pass in that day (Isa 23:15). Concerning the first, he does three things. First, setting out divine indignation, the precept: the Lord has given a charge, to Nabuchodonosor, against Chanaan, in which Tyre is located: the Lord said to me: go up to this land, and destroy it (2 Kgs 18:25).

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