Isaiah 23:7 “Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet…”

Isaiah 23:7

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?

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Cross references

“your”

Isaiah 22:2

Isaiah 22:2 · BSB

O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.

“whose”

Joshua 19:29

Joshua 19:29 · BSB

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,

“her own”

Ecclesiastes 10:7 Isaiah 47:1 Isaiah 47:2

Ecclesiastes 10:7 · BSB

I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.

Isaiah 47:1 · BSB

“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

Isaiah 47:2 · BSB

Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

Also

Isaiah 32:13

Isaiah 32:13 · BSB

and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6Cross over to Tarshish; wail, O inhabitants of the coastland!

8Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?

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