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Is this your exultant one,[a] her origin from the days of long ago?
    Her feet brought her to dwell afar as an alien.
Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,[b]
    whose merchants were princes,
    her traders the honored ones of the earth?
Yahweh of hosts has planned it:
    to defile the pride of all glory,
    to humble all the honored ones of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:7 Literally “this to you, exultant”
  2. Isaiah 23:8 Hebrew “crown”

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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