Isaiah 23:7 KJV — MannaFest

Isaiah 23:7

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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ASV

Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?

WEB

Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?

YLT

Is this your exulting one? From the days of old is her antiquity, Carry her do her own feet afar off to sojourn.

DBT

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

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Isaiah 22:2
Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
Ruth 1:19
So they two went until they came to Beth–lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth–lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
Isaiah 47:1–2
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Joshua 19:29
And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:
Ecclesiastes 10:7
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

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Her antiquity likewise was of ancient days, and she was proud of that, and that helped to make her secure; as if because she had been a city time out of mind, and her antiquity had been of ancient days, therefore she must continue a city time without end, and her continuance must be to the days of eternity. She was a crowning city (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Is this silent ruin all that is left of your once joyous city (Isa 23:12)? antiquity--The Tyrian priests boasted in HERODOTUS' time that their city had already existed 2300 years: an exaggeration, but still implying that it was ancient even then. her own feet--walking on foot as captives to an enemy's land.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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