Isaiah 23:7

Is this your exulting one? Her antiquity [is] from the days of old, || Her own feet carry her far off to sojourn.

Literal Standard Version

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 over to Tarshish, howl, you inhabitants of the island,

8Who has counseled this against Tyre, || The crowning one, whose traders [are] princes, || Her merchants—the honored of earth?

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:7I have seen servants on horses, || And princes walking as servants on the earth.

Isaiah 32:13Over the ground of my people thorn [and] brier go up, || Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,

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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