A moment in scripture
Isaiah 23:7
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Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
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The surrounding passage
- Isaiah 23:5
As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
- Isaiah 23:6
Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
- Isaiah 23:8
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
- Isaiah 23:9
The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.