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13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans!
    This people no longer exists.
    Assyria destined[a] it for wild animals.
They erected its siege towers;
    they demolished its citadel fortresses.
    It made her like a ruin.
14 Wail, ships of Tarshish!
    For your fortress is destroyed.

15 And this will happen on that day: And Tyre will be forgotten seventy years,[b]

like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years,[c] it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute:

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:13 Literally “this people was not Assyria destined,” which could be translated “It was this people! It was not Assyria. They destined”
  2. Isaiah 23:15 Hebrew “year”
  3. Isaiah 23:15 Hebrew “year”