Holy Scripture
Isaiah 23:6
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 6, 7.) Go to Carthage: howl, you who dwell in this island. Is this not your insult from the beginning before it was handed over? They will lead it far on foot to wander. That which follows: They will lead it far on foot to wander, is added from Hebrew, and is prenoted by an asterisk, that is, by illuminating st…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6Depart ye to Carthage; howl, ye that dwell in this island.
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In context
4Be ashamed, O Sidon: the sea has said, yea, the strength of the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins.
5Moreover when it shall be heard in Egypt, sorrow shall seize them for Tyre.
— Isaiah 23:6 —
7Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up?
8Who has devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.