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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Gill's Exposition
Is this your joyous city?.... Which the other day looked so gay, brisk, and cheerful, through the number of its inhabitants, largeness of trade, fullness of provisions, and pleasures of every kind;…
Barnes' Notes
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 -…
Tyre being a sea-port town, this prophecy of its overthrow fitly begins and ends with, Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for all its business, wealth, and honour, depended upon its shipping; if that be…
Cambridge Bible
The reference is of course to Tyre, the principal subject of the prophecy.
whose antiquity … days Next to Zidon, Tyre was regarded as the most ancient city of Phœnicia. Her priests claimed for their…
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