10. a river--Hebrew, "the river," namely, Nile.
daughter of Tarshish--Tyre and its inhabitants
(Isa 1:8),
about henceforth, owing to the ruin of Tyre, to become inhabitants of
its colony, Tartessus: they would pour forth from Tyre, as
waters flow on when the barriers are removed [LOWTH]. Rather, Tarshish, or Tartessus and its
inhabitants, as the phrase usually means: they had been kept in hard
bondage, working in silver and lead mines near Tarshish, by the parent
city
(Eze 26:17):
but now "the bond of restraint" (for so "strength," Margin,
"girdle," that is, bond,
Ps 2:3,
ought to be translated) is removed, since Tyre is no more.
JFB.
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