Is this your (A)jubilant city,
Whose origin is from antiquity,
Whose feet used to bring her to [a]colonize distant places?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:7 Lit sojourn afar off

Is this your city of revelry,(A)
    the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
    to settle in far-off lands?

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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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13 (A)For the land of my people in which thorns and briars will come up;
Indeed, for all the joyful houses and for the (B)jubilant city.

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13 and for the land of my people,
    a land overgrown with thorns and briers(A)
yes, mourn(B) for all houses of merriment
    and for this city of revelry.(C)

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13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

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