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Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is [a]of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?

Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to [b]stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:7 Or, of ancient days? her own feet shall carry etc.
  2. Isaiah 23:9 Hebrew profane.

Is this your city of revelry,(A)
    the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
    to settle in far-off lands?
Who planned this against Tyre,
    the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants(B) are princes,
    whose traders(C) are renowned in the earth?
The Lord Almighty planned(D) it,
    to bring down(E) her pride in all her splendor
    and to humble(F) all who are renowned(G) on the earth.

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