Isaiah 23:7
Good News Translation
Can this be the joyful city of Tyre, founded so long ago? Is this the city that sent settlers across the sea to establish colonies?

New Revised Standard Version
Is this your exultant city whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle far away?

Contemporary English Version
Can this be the happy city that has stood for centuries? Its people have spread to distant lands;

New American Bible
Is this your exultant city, whose origin is from old, Whose feet have taken her to dwell in distant lands?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her antiquity? her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

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Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her antiquity? her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

your

Isaiah 22:2 Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.

whose

Joshua 19:29 And it returneth to Horma to the strong city of Tyre, and to Hosa: and the outgoings thereof shall be at the sea from the portion of Achziba:

her own

Isaiah 47:1,2 Come down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for thou shalt no more be called delicate and tender. . . .

Ecclesiastes 10:7 I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the ground as servants.

afar off.

Context
The Fall of Tyre
6Pass over the seas, howl, ye inhabitants of the island. 7Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her antiquity? her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.8Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, that was formerly crowned, whose merchants were princes, and her traders the nobles of the earth?…
Cross References
Isaiah 22:2
Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.

Isaiah 32:13
Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?

Isaiah 23:6
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