Isaiah 23:7

Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

6Depart ye to Carthage; howl, ye that dwell in this island.

8Who has devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:7I have seen servants upon horses, 1 And princes walking as servants on the earth. 1

Isaiah 32:13As for the land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come upon it, and joy shall be removed from every house.

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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