Go you over to [a]Tarshish: howl, ye that dwell in the isles.

Is not this that your glorious city? her antiquity is of ancient days: her own feet shall lead her afar off to be a sojourner.

Who hath decreed this against Tyre (that [b]crowneth men) whose merchants are princes? whose chapmen are the nobles of the world?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:6 Tyre willeth other merchants to go to Cilicia, and to come no more there.
  2. Isaiah 23:8 Who maketh her merchants like princes.

Cross over to Tarshish;(A)
    wail, you people of the island.
Is this your city of revelry,(B)
    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(C) are princes,
    whose traders(D) are renowned in the earth?

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