Isaiah 23:7 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 23:7

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 6, 7.) Go to Carthage: howl, you who dwell in this island. Is this not your insult from the beginning before it was handed over? They will lead it far on foot to wander. That which follows: They will lead it far on foot to wander, is added from Hebrew, and is prenoted by an asterisk, that is, by illuminating stars.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Is this your joyous city - Is this the city that was just now so full of happiness, of revelry, of business, of gaiety, of rejoicing? (see the note at Isa 22:2) Whose antiquity is of ancient days - Strabo (xvi. 756) says, ‘After Sidon, Tyre, a splendid and most ancient city, is to be compared in greatness, beauty, and antiquity, with Sidon.’ Curtius (Hist. Alex. iv. 4) says, ‘The city was taken, distinguished both by its antiquity, and its great variety of fortune.’ Arrian (ii.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הֲזֹ֥את	ha.Zot	¿ [is] this	H2063 →
לָכֶ֖ם	la.Khem	of you
עַלִּיזָ֑ה	'a.li.Zah	jubilant [city]	H5947 →
מִֽימֵי־	mi.mei-	[which is] from days of	H3117 →
קֶ֤דֶם	Ke.dem	antiquity	H6924 →
קַדְמָתָהּ֙	kad.ma.Tah	beginning its	H6927 →
יֹבִל֣וּהָ	yoi.Lu.ha	[which] they have carried it	H2986 →
רַגְלֶ֔יהָ	rag.Lei.ha	feet its	H7272 →
מֵֽרָח֖וֹק	me.ra.Chok	from a distance	H7350 →
לָגֽוּר׃	la.Gur	to sojourn	H1481 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ecclesiastes 10:7
I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.
leads to
- Proverbs 19:10
  Luxury is unseemly for a fool—how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
- Esther 6:8
  have them bring a royal robe that the king himself has worn and a horse on which the king himself has ridden—one with a royal crest placed on its head.
- Proverbs 30:22
  a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
Through
Isaiah 22:2
O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
leads to
- Isaiah 32:13
  and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
Through
Isaiah 32:13
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
leads to
- Hosea 9:6
  For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents.
- Isaiah 22:2
  O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
- Isaiah 7:23
  And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
Through
Joshua 19:29
The border then turned back toward Ramah as far as the fortified city of Tyre, turned toward Hosah, and came out at the Sea in the region of Achzib,
leads to
- Judges 1:31
  Asher failed to drive out the inhabitants of Acco, Sidon, Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik, and Rehob.

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Isaiah