Isaiah 23:7

Is this your fate, ye of the joyous [city]? she whose antiquity is of ancient days—her own feet shall carry her, afar off to sojourn.

Leeser Tanakh

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

6Pass ye over to Tharshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the coast-land.

8Who hath resolved this against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:7I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants upon the ground.—

Isaiah 32:13Upon the soil of my people thorns and briers shall come up; yea, upon all the houses of joy of the gladsome 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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