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The Burden against Tyre

Isaiah 23:7

In 11 translations

BSB
Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?
KJV
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.afar…: Heb. from afar off
WEB
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?
ASV
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?
LSV
Is this your exulting one? Her antiquity [is] from the days of old, || Her own feet carry her far off to sojourn.
YLT
Is this your exulting one? From the days of old [is] her antiquity, Carry her do her own feet afar off to sojourn.
DBY
Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancient days? Her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
DRC
Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her antiquity? her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
GNV
Is not this that your glorious citie? her antiquitie is of ancient daies: her owne feete shall leade her afarre off to be a soiourner.
JPS
Is this your joyous city, whose feet in antiquity, in ancient days, carried her afar off to sojourn?
LXXE
Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הֲזֹ֥את לָכֶ֖ם עַלִּיזָ֑ה מִֽימֵי־קֶ֤דֶם קַדְמָתָהּ֙ יֹבִל֣וּהָ רַגְלֶ֔יהָ מֵֽרָח֖וֹק לָגֽוּר׃
LXX-Br
Οὐχ αὕτη ἦν ὑμῶν ἡ ὕβρις ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς, πρινὴ παραδοθῆναι αὐτήν;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 22:2O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
  • Ecclesiastes 10:7I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.
  • Joshua 19:29The 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,
  • Isaiah 32:13and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
  • Isaiah 47:1–2“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate. Take millstones and grind flour; remove your…

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