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Read Full Chapter (Isaiah 23) Isaiah 23:7 KJV
"Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn."
Isaiah 23:7 in Context (Verses 4–10 KJV)
4
Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
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?
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.*
10
Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.*