Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 23:12

12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin , daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim, there also shalt thou have no rest.

So he calls her, either for her Pride and Beauty, and living in great Ease and Pleasure; or because she had hitherto never born the yoke of a conquering Enemy: though withal he declares, that she should be oppressed or deflowred very suddenly.

Whereby he understands either, 1. Zidon her self, who suffered in and with Tyre; for so this Phrase seems generally to be used, the daughter of Sion, or of Ierusalem, or of Babel, or Egypt, &c. being nothing else but Sion, Ierusalem, Babel, Egypt, &c. or rather, 2. Tyrus, as most Interpreters both Jewish and Christian understand it, of whom this whole Context and Prophecy speaks; which may well be called the daughter of Zidon, because she was first built and possessed by a Colony of the Sidonians; as Pliny calleth Carthage the Daughter of Tyre▪ because she was built by a Colony of Tyrians. And the Title of daughter is oft-times given in Scripture unto Towns or Cities which had their Being from, or Dependence upon other Cities; in which sence we read of the daughter of Heshbon, Numb. 21. 25. and of Rabbah, Ier. 49. 2, 3. and of Sodom, and of Samaria, Ezek. 16. 46, 49, 53. And the daughter of Tarshish here above, v. 10. is not meant of Tarshish it self, but of Tyrus, which had a Relation to, and Dependence upon Tarshish.

Of which Place, see on v. 1.

Thither thine Enemies shall pursue thee, and there shall they overtake thee, although thou wilt think thy self secure when thou art fled to remote Parts beyond the Sea.