Isaiah ironically asks if this really is the once prosperous city – its sorry state would be difficult to reconcile with its former glory. Tyre had existed for so long that nobody imagined that it could be destroyed one day. Tyre was wealthy and successfully planted many colonies, and its merchants travelled far and wide. Nobody suspected that this could come to an end.
7 Is this your exultant city whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle far away?