the ships] See vers. 14. Chap. 23. 1. Psalms 48:7.
Tarshish,] Ships of Tarsus, a Sea town in Cilicia, Act. 23 3. or, of the main Ocean, the Midland Sea, Psal. 104. 25, 26. which are usually of the greater and stronger sort; not like those used upon other more shoaly waters, Chap. 18. 2.
pleasant pictures.] Heb. pictures of desire, as Chap. 32. 12. Jeremiah 25:34. Hosea 13:15. See Chap. 1. 29.