Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 23:7

7 Is this your joyous city , whose antiquity is of ancient days ? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

That formerly lived in so much Pomp, and Pleasure, and Security.

Being built before Ioshua's time, as is manifest from Ios. 19. 29.

Whereas before, like a delicate Lady, she would not set the Sole of her Foot to the ground, as the Expression is Deut. 28. 56. but used to be carried in stately Chariots, or magnificent Vessels.

To seek for new Habitations. For, as some of the Tyrians were taken and carried Captive into Chaldea and other Places, so others fled by Sea into several Parts of the World, Carthage, and divers other Towns of the Midland Sea, as is recorded by ancient Historians.

Marginal references: Heb. from afar off.