Is this your (A)jubilant city,
Whose origin is from antiquity,
Whose feet used to bring her to [a]colonize distant places?

Who has planned this against Tyre, (B)the bestower of crowns,
Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?
(C)The Lord of armies has planned it, to (D)defile the pride of all beauty,
To despise all the (E)honored of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:7 Lit sojourn afar off

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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Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

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.

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