“On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Isaiah 23 contains 18 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.