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Is this your exultant city
    (A)whose origin is from days of old,
whose feet carried her
    to settle far away?
Who has purposed this
    against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes,
    whose traders were the honoured of the earth?
The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
    (B)to defile the pompous pride of all glory,[a]
    to dishonour all the honoured of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:9 The Hebrew words for glory and hosts sound alike