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13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people which was not; (A)Assyria established it for (B)desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, (C)they made it a ruin.

14 Wail, O (D)ships of Tarshish,
For your strong defense is destroyed.

15 Now it will be in that day, that Tyre will be forgotten for (E)seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

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13 Look at the land of the Babylonians,[a](A)
    this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians(B) have made it
    a place for desert creatures;(C)
they raised up their siege towers,(D)
    they stripped its fortresses bare
    and turned it into a ruin.(E)

14 Wail, you ships(F) of Tarshish;(G)
    your fortress is destroyed!(H)

15 At that time Tyre(I) will be forgotten for seventy years,(J) the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:13 Or Chaldeans