Isaiah 23:7

Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

In Context

6Go over to Tarshish; give cries of sorrow, O men of the sea-land.

8By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:7I have seen servants on horses, and rulers walking on the earth as servants.

Isaiah 32:13And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 23:2-15

The Doom of Tyre. ( b. c. 718.) 1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I… Read the whole commentary →

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