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12 He says, “You will no longer be joyful,
    my dear abused people Sidon.”
    Get up, and travel to Cyprus.
    Even there you will find no rest.
13 Look at the land of the Babylonians.
    These people will be gone.
    Assyria gave this land to the desert animals.
    Assyria set up battle towers,
        stripped palaces bare,
            and turned these places into ruins.

14 Cry loudly, you ships of Tarshish, because your fortress will be destroyed.

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12 He said, “No more of your reveling,(A)
    Virgin Daughter(B) Sidon, now crushed!

“Up, cross over to Cyprus;(C)
    even there you will find no rest.”
13 Look at the land of the Babylonians,[a](D)
    this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians(E) have made it
    a place for desert creatures;(F)
they raised up their siege towers,(G)
    they stripped its fortresses bare
    and turned it into a ruin.(H)

14 Wail, you ships(I) of Tarshish;(J)
    your fortress is destroyed!(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:13 Or Chaldeans