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Isaiah 23:13-15
International Standard Version
Isaiah 23:13-15
International Standard Version
Tyre’s Desolation and Restoration
13 “Look at the land of the Chaldeans!
This is a people that no longer exist;
Assyria destined her[a] for desert creatures.[b]
They raised up her[c] siege towers,
they stripped her fortresses bare
and turned her into a ruin.
14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish,
because your[d] stronghold is destroyed!”
15 It will happen at that time that Tyre will be forgotten for 70 years, the span of a king’s life. Then, at the end of those 70 years, it will turn out for Tyre as in the prostitute’s song:[e]
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- Isaiah 23:13 I.e. Tyre
- Isaiah 23:13 Or demons
- Isaiah 23:13 So 1QIsaa; MT reads his
- Isaiah 23:14 So 1QIsaa (sing.); MT LXX (pl.)
- Isaiah 23:15 So 1QIsac MT LXX; 1QIsaa lacks that Tyre will be forgotten for 70 years, the span of a king’s life. Then, at the end of those 70 years
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