“Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.”
Isaiah 23:7 (KJV) |
Isaiah 23:7
From Isaiah 23, in the Book of Isaiah (Old Testament).
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5
As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
6
Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
7
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
8
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
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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.