Isaiah 23:13-15

Good News Translation

¹³ (It was the Babylonians, not the Assyrians, who let the wild animals overrun Tyre. It was the Babylonians who put up siege towers, tore down the fortifications of Tyre, and left the city in ruins.^[a])

¹⁴ Howl with grief, you sailors out on the ocean! The city you relied on has been destroyed.

¹⁵ A time is coming when Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the lifetime of a king. When those years are over, Tyre will be like the prostitute in the song: