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Is this your exciting[a] city,
    that was founded long ago,
whose feet carried her
    to settle in far-off lands?
Who has planned this
    against Tyre,
        that bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes,[b]
    whose traders were the most renowned on earth?
The Lord of the Heavenly Armies has planned it—
    to neutralize all the hubris of grandeur,[c]
        to discredit all the renowned men of earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:7 Or happy
  2. Isaiah 23:8 So 1QIsaa corrector
  3. Isaiah 23:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads the hubris of all grandeur