Isaiah 23:8

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

Who - Answered in , "The Lord of hosts."

The crowning city - crown-giving: i:e., the city from which dependent kingdoms had arisen, as Tartessus in Spain, Citium in Cyprus, and Carthage in Africa ().

Whose traffickers - literally, Canaanites, who were famed for commerce, (cf. , margin.)