Isaiah 23:13-15

The Voice

¹³Just look at the land of the Chaldeans in southern Mesopotamia. There are no such people anymore. The Assyrians came along, took it over, and left it for the desert animals; they built their siege machines, stripped its palaces, and determined that it should be ruined.

¹⁴Cry out in anguish, ships of Tarshish
because your fortress is no more.

¹⁵Tyre will be forgotten for 70 years—the lifespan of a king. After that Tyre’s fate will be like the song of the prostitute:

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