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13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans;
    it was this people, not Assyria,
who erected siege-towers,
    tore down its palaces,
    and left it in ruins.
14 Cry out in anguish, O ships of Tarshish,
    for your fortress has been destroyed.

15 From that day, Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of one king’s life. At the end of those seventy years, the plight of Tyre will be identical to that of the prostitute in the song:

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