Isaiah
23:12
12 And he said ['amar], Thou shalt
no more [yacaph] rejoice [`alaz], O thou oppressed [`ashaq]
virgin [bathuwlah], daughter [bath] of Zidon [Tsiydown]: arise [quwm], pass over [`abar] to
Chittim [Kittiy]; there also shalt thou have no
rest [nuwach].
KJV-Interlinear
12 And he said: “You will no more exult, O
oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon; arise, cross over to Cyprus, even there you will have no rest.” ESV
When the end
comes, then the rejoicing, the boasting, the knack for indifference, the
procrastination, the resistance toward truth, will all cease. The old things, the old habits, the
tendencies to ignore ones obligations and responsibilities in the spiritual
life, as God has defined them, will cease.
God gives
everyone plenty of time, and plenty of rope with which to get their life in
order.
But persistent
disregard of Gods mandates, disregard of the things that are expected to you,
continuation in ones own ways, will get you into a huge pit, from which it will
be difficult if not impossible to escape.
Virgin daughter
of Sidon, is a personification of Tyre, the attitude of which she could do
anything without repercussions, without error.
And since Tyre represents the center of economies, of which man designed
through his own wisdom, which is not wisdom, then when all things collapse, the
mocking and cat calls of arrogance will cease and turn to extreme despair.
Cross over to
Cyprus, represents the attempt to go elsewhere, but still continuing in ones
ways.
It does not work.
You cannot
succeed now in obstinence, and you cannot go somewhere else and expect to
succeed in obstinence.
